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A quick-thinking neighbour has prevented a small fire spreading at a Harrison Street retirement village in Wangaratta.
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Lead firefighter Robert Skase said an elderly gentleman had left something cooking on the stove and had gone across to the village community centre.
“The stove had been turned off by one of his neighbours; she heard the smoke alarm operating, contacted the fire brigade and then she went in and turned it off – there was little damage apart from a little smoke.”