Unattended cooking sparked a kitchen blaze in the county town.
Two Dorchester fire crews attended the house near the junction of Fordington Cross and Kings Road at around 9.45am this morning.
The fire was extinguished but caused some smoke damage to the property.
No one was injured and the cause of the fire was unattended cooking.
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