Barrow man treated for smoke inhalation after tackling deliberate shed fire
A BARROW man had to be treated for smoke inhalation after trying to put out a deliberate shed fire at his home.
Firefighters from Barrow were called to a house in Bridgegate Avenue at around 12.45am in the early hours of this morning. A shed had been set on fire in a garden by an unknown person and the occupier, a man in his 40s, had attempted to put out the fire himself.
Firefighters treated the man at the scene and paramedics and police also attended.
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