Firefighters were called to Chapel Row, Redruth, yesterday morning after a report of a fire in a home.

Appliances from Redruth, Camborne and Truro were mobilised just after 11.30am and found a fire in the ground floor kitchen of a terraced property.

Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus entered the property and extinguished the fire using a high pressure hosereel.

The fire involved the cooker.

Westcountry Ambulance were requested and attended and treated one male casualty for minor burns.