Five crews called to fire in Cheddar flat

Five crews were called to a fire in a flat in Cheddar earlier today (January 12).

Just after 12.30pm, fire control received a call reporting alarms sounding due to residential fire involving a microwave in a flat in Cheddar.

Control quickly mobilised crews from Cheddar, Wells and Burnham-on-Sea, as well as a fire engine and an aerial ladder platform from Avon Fire and Rescue.

On arrival, crews discovered a microwave smoking in a first floor flat and quickly got to work to extinguish the it using a covering jet, a hose reel jet, two breathing apparatus, a GP line, one triple extension ladder, and a thermal imaging camera.

One person was attended to by ambulance for minor smoke inhalation. This fire is being treated as accidental.