A HOME owner used buckets of water to try to put out a fire in his lounge room about 10.40pm on November 24.
A smoke alarm in the Cahill Street, Bulla, house alerted the man.
A passing couple began walking a kilometre to the nearest house to raise the alarm but an off-duty police officer who was driving past called the brigade.
The house owner suffered moderate burns and was taken by ambulance to St Vincent's Hospital.
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