A woman had to be rescued by firefighters after a blaze in her home caused by some cooking.

The 22-year-old woman was discovered leaning out of an upstairs bedroom.

She needed hospital treatment following the fire at Elm Road in Dewsbury Moor at around 7.30pm on Friday.

Firefighters arrived to find smoke billowing out from the downstairs windows.

They had to break down a locked door to enter and when they went around the back of the property they discovered the lone female trapped inside.

A Dewsbury Fire Station spokesman said: “She was leaning out a little window at the top of the building trying to get some fresh air.

“The woman was stood on the ledge at first. She didn’t understand much English.

“We had to get her to open a bigger window below so that we could get the ladder up to her and get her out.”

The panicked woman suffered from smoke inhalation and was given oxygen before being taken to Dewsbury and District Hospital by ambulance.

She is believed to have run upstairs when the house filled with smoke after a fire broke out in the kitchen.

The spokesman added: “It was a very serious house fire. There was quite a rapid fire growth because she was using cooking oils.

“Because the doors had been opened the smoke spread up to the staircase and caused a lot of soot and dirt damage.”

Two fire crews from Dewsbury and one from Cleckheaton spent two hours dealing with the fire.