One resident of a Lexington nursing home went to the hospital for treatment of smoke inhalation after a Thursday morning fire was quickly extinguished.

Fifteen other Fayette County residents of Lexington Country Place, 700 Mason Headley Road, were moved to another part of the nursing home as smoke was cleared from the facility, said Lexington Fire Battalion Chief Brent Frizzell.  The fire was reported shortly after 7 a.m. Thursday. It started in Room 105 in a wall-mounted electrical heater, Frizzell said.

The fire was confined to that room and was already extinguished by a maintenance employee when firefighters arrived. However, there was smoke in the hallway outside the room, so 15 residents were moved elsewhere in the building.

The woman who was in the room was taken to a Lexington hospital for treatment of smoke inhalation, Frizzell said. Three or four employees of the nursing home were checked for smoke inhalation at the scene but did not require further treatment, he said.