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An elderly woman died and a male neighbour has been taken to hospital following a house fire in Hythe.

Firefighters say a Canterbury family have had a lucky escape after smoke alarms alerted them to a blaze in their property.

Firefighters led occupants of a two-storey house in Pavillion Road, Folkestone, to safety after fire broke out shortly after midnight on Boxing Day.

Fire crews wearing breathing apparatus rescued three elderly residents at a Folkestone residential home in the early hours of this morning (19 December).

The warning to ‘stand by your pan’ when cooking comes from Kent Fire and Rescue Service (KFRS) following a lucky escape for the resident of a Folkestone flat.

Kent firefighters tackled a fire which destroyed a large haystack at St Mary's Bay last night.

An 18-year-old Folkestone man's life was saved on Saturday (29 October) after a smoke alarm, fitted just days ago by firefighters following an earlier blaze on Tuesday (25 October), alerted his neighbours to the fire in his flat.

A Dover district fire station at St Margaret's is included in a list of eight village stations in the county which are set to close under plans to streamline Kent's fire service.

Detectives investigating a fire which severely damaged the pavilion at Deal Town Football Club last night, (6 October), say the cause of the blaze is still unexplained.

Around 30 firefighters are tackling a serious blaze at Deal Town football club this evening (6 October).