Firefighters were called to a kitchen fire at a house in York after a decorating dust sheet caught light.

The minor blaze at Ramsey Avenue, Bishopthorpe, at 7.40pm last night, was extinguished by two firefighters wearing breathing apparatus using a hose reel.

The dust sheet was fire damaged and there was also damage to the kitchen floor, but nobody was injured.

Updated: 14:59 Friday, July 25, 2003