7:18pm Friday 12 August 2011 - Update on two separate kitchen fires at Scullin and Hawker

ACT Ambulance Service Intensive Care Paramedics attended the fire at Scullin and treated three patients for smoke inhalation before transporting to Calvary Hospital in a stable condition. A male, female and three month old baby.

Food stuffs cooking on the stove that boiled over started both fires.

Significant damage to both kitchens with some smoke logging in the two dwellings.

Neighbouring units at Scullin have been evacuated as a precaution as ACT Fire Brigade carry out air monitoring.

The fire at Hawker was a town house with no other houses affected.

ACT Fire Brigade would like to remind the community don't stop looking while you're cooking.