A firefighter said a family avoided a potentially-fatal house fire, thanks to their teenage son.

He was still awake when a fire took hold in the kitchen of a semi-detached property in Wibsey at 2am on Saturday.

He alerted his mum, dad and sister and they got out of the house on Poplar Road after closing the kitchen door on the fire.

Crew commander Andy McCann, of Odsal fire station, said the property had no smoke alarms.

“The teenager was still up in his bedroom above the kitchen and smelt smoke,” said Mr McCann. “If he had been asleep, there would have been serious injuries, if not fatal ones.”

Mr McCann said the fire was caused by clothing being left on top of an electric cooker. “A hob had accidentally been left on,” he said.

The kitchen was destroyed by the blaze, and the living room was smoke-logged. The house next door also suffered some smoke damage.

Crews from Odsal and Bradford stations attended the scene.

Mr McCann said: “We urge people to contact their local fire station to get a smoke alarm.”