AN ELDERLY woman was rescued from her burning home in Upper Road, Maidstone, early today by quick-thinking electricity workers.

The 83-year-old woman was woken by Scott Findlay, of Ballens Road, Chatham, after he and a colleague had broken into the smoking house shortly before 3am.

They were working on the power supply in the road when they heard a smoke alarm and saw smoke pouring from the kitchen. Sub officer Chris Smith, of Maidstone fire station, said: "When we arrived, the lady was outside the house.

"We gave her oxygen and put out the fire. It was very good work by Mr Findlay and his colleague."

Fire damage was confined to the kitchen because the doors in the house had been shut, he added.