An 86-year-old man suffered smoke inhalation in a kitchen fire in his home.
Firefighters were called to Beatty Lane in Basildon just before 3pm today.
They had put the blaze, in the ground floor flat, out within 30 minutes.
The man was left in the care of the ambulance service.
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