A MAN has received oxygen therapy after inhaling smoke in a fire at a Dorset home.
Firefighters were called to a blaze in a first-floor bedroom at a residential property on High Street in Swanage at 4.34 this morning.
Two fire engines from Swanage Fire Station and one fire engine from Wareham Fire Station were called and crews used two breathing kits and one hose reel jet to extinguish the flames.
A man in his late twenties was treated for smoke inhalation at the scene by paramedics and was not taken to hospital.
Crews were stood down at 5.17am.
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