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An exploding egg caused an entire floor of a block of flats to be evacuated.

Crews from Whitehill, Offerton and King Street fire stations were called to Offerton Road, Offerton, at 7.20am today (Tuesday).

A woman had been cooking an egg for breakfast, but left it on the heat too long and it exploded and caught alight.

The smoke alarm sounded and a security guard at the flats called 999.

Six flats containing six people were evacuated.

Firefighters found the flames already burnt out and vented the flat of smoke.

About 30 minutes later crews were called to Branksome Road, Heaton Mersey.

A man, woman and boy were preparing for the school run when a fuse in the electrical consumer unit overheated and caused a fire.

They escaped the home before crews arrived.

Damage was limited to the unit area, but the property again needed venting.

And yesterday afternoon (Monday) an electrical fault caused a fridge to catch fire in a garage on Peacock Drive, Heald Green.

The man living at the house used a hosepipe to douse the flames before firefighters arrived to finish the job.