SIX firefighters raced to a Hampshire restaurant and climbed through an open first storey window... to snuff out a candle.

A passer-by dialled 999 after seeing a flickering candle left alight in Al Trullo, on Christchurch Road, Ringwood.

Restaurant manager Vinnie Kurti said: “We forgot to blow out one candle, which is easily done, but fortunately a passer-by saw it through the window and rang the fire brigade.

“We didn’t know anything about it until the following day when a fireman came in and explained what had happened.”

The emergency response by the fire service cost £292.