A MAN managed to put out a chip pan fire at his home.

But the heat and smoke badly damaged the kitchen of the house in Weatherhill Road, Lindley.

The man, who is in his late 60s, had put the pan on shortly after midnight today, but it flared up when he went into the living-room.

He put the fire out before firefighters arrived.

They gave him oxygen for the effects of breathing in smoke, but he did not need hospital treatment.