Charles Ozanne at his Castel home where a fire had broken out in his garage yesterday. A fire alarm fitted two weeks ago after an oven fire alerted Mrs Ozanne to the blaze. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 0744986)

A FIRE alarm fitted just two weeks before a fire broke out, helped protect two Castel residents yesterday.

Retired music teacher Rozelle Ozanne, 67, had been sitting in her lounge with a family friend when, after hearing the fire alarm, she smelled smoke.

She then discovered a large fire had broken out in the garage attached to her house.

A call was made to the Fire & Rescue Service at 12.28pm and by 12.54pm the blaze had been extinguished.

Two fire engines attended the scene.

Mrs Ozanne said it was the second time she had called firefighters to her house in Le Douit Boudin in the space of two weeks.

Prior to yesterday’s fire they had put out one in her oven.

She and her husband, Charles, 72, had then fitted two new fire alarms to replace a faulty one.

‘This has been much more traumatic than the other fire. I was not sure if we were going to lose the house.

‘My knees are a fraction shaky, but I’m OK. I was afraid that something might explode in the garage,’ she said.