A 74 Year Old Woman Has Been Treated For Burns After A Microwave Fire in Penicuik.
Emergency services were called to a house on Glaskhill Terrace around 7:30pm last night (Thursday 3rd January) after it was reported that a fire had broken out in a microwave.
Upon arrival the pensioner was treated for burns to her left hand.
A spokesman told the Scotsman:
Two crews from Penicuik and Midlothian attended the fire which was in a microwave. It was extinguished on arrival and an elderly woman was treated at the scene for burns.