Thanks to smoke detector

Fire in apartment prevented at the last minute

On Thursday afternoon, a 79-year-old woman from Lungau put her food on the stove in her apartment in St. Margareten to heat it up and left the kitchen to lie down for a moment. Because she must have fallen asleep, the food burned in the saucepan and smoke spread through the apartment. A smoke alarm prevented the worst from happening.

The alarm of the smoke detector alerted a housemate to the fire and she took the smoking cooking pot outside. The 79-year-old woman was taken to hospital for a safety check-up.