A chip pan is believed to be the cause of a fire that damaged a flat in Ponders End.
More than 20 firefighters were called to a fourth floor flat in Poppy Drive, where more than half of the premises had been damaged by the flames.
Watch manager Dave Gurt, who was at the scene, said: “The cause is under investigation, but it’s thought the fire was caused by an unattended chip pan. Chip pans and cooking with hot oil can be really dangerous. All it can take is for you to become distracted for a few seconds and your cooking oil can quickly go up in flames.”
More than 500 people across the capital have been injured in the past five years because of chip pan fires with three people losing their lives.
Nobody was hurt during the incident in Ponders End yesterday.
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