A PARAMEDIC has been praised for rescuing a man from a smoke-logged house in Bury.
The incident happened at 11.20pm on Sunday, May 20, when the 54-year-old awoke at his home in Deacon Crescent, Woolfold, and was struggling to breathe in the heavy smoke coming from a pan fire.
He called for an ambulance and the the paramedic, who has not been named, helped the man downstairs and took him outside. He gave him treatment, before he was taken to Fairfield Hospital, Bury.
Watch manager Roy Grundy, from Bury Fire Station, said: “The paramedic got him out of the house and phoned for us.
“We put the pan of food outside and cleared the smoke from the house.”
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