AN elderly woman was helped from her home by a neighbour after a fire started in her kitchen this afternoon (Friday).
Fire engines from Taunton and Wellington attended the incident in Staplegrove at 2.21pm and firefighters soon extinguished the small fire involving towels and paper on the cooker.
The elderly woman was treated at the scene for smoke inhalation by the ambulance service..
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