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Leaking fridge forces evacuation

By: Danny Boyle

Published: 10:42, 20 January 2012

Updated: 12:26, 20 January 2012

Fire Engine

A man has been taken to hospital with chest pains after inhaling fumes from a defective fridge - while his neighbours were evacuated from four flats.

Firefighters, police and ambulance crews raced to the flats in Lockside, Tonbridge, following a leak reported just before 1.20am today.

Fire crews removed the fridge and cleared fumes with a pressure fan.

The injured man was taken to The Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury for treatment.

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