Cornwall Fire & Rescue Service Newsdesk

St. Merryn, Padstow at 15/04/2013 16:45

On receipt of this call, appliances from Padstow and Wadebridge were mobilised with a total of fifteen crew, on arrival the crews found a fire in the outhouse of a semi detached cottage, firefighters wearing breathing apparatus used a high pressure hosereel and a main jet to extinguish the fire, further teams of firefighters wearing breathing apparatus were committed to both properties with a thermal imaging camera to check for hotspots and also to ventilate the premises. The cause was accidental.