FIREFIGHTERS rushed to a Hampshire home last night after smoke filled the entire ground floor.

Crews from Gosport rushed to the house at 10.15pm last night after a mother of two teenage children called the fire service.

According to watch manager Rob Dellow, the mother was so distressed by her father being taken ill she forgot to turn her oven off causing smoke to fill the whole of her home’s ground floor.

The woman’s father had yesterday been taken into hospital and after an anxious day she returned home to Seymour Road in Lee-on-the-Solent.

She put some sausages in the oven but due to the stressful day and having other things on her mind, she forgot about them.

A kitchen fire broke out and smoke filled the downstairs of her house.

Discovering the smoke pouring out of the kitchen, the woman fled with her 16-year-old daughter and 14-year-old son.

Two engines from Gosport Fire Station attended the incident and two firefighters with breathing apparatus entered the property to remove the burning grill.

The smoke was extracted with a fan.

The teenage boy has asthma and firefighters were careful to make sure all harmful fumes had been removed from the property before letting the family back in.

The fire crews then discovered that the smoke alarms in the house had the batteries removed and informed the family about the importance of having working fire alarms.

Watch manager Dellow said: “If this had happened when they were asleep they would not have woken up.”

Before leaving, the firefighters fitted two long life smoke alarms in the house that cannot have their batteries removed.