Incident
Property fire
Date
3.15pm - 07 September 2021
Last updated
4.59pm - 07 September 2021
Status
Closed
Incident type
Domestic
Location
Barton with Watcombe
Attending station
Torquay
Fire control received reports that there was smoke issuing from the first floor window of a block of flats along with the alarms sounding.
Control immediately mobilised 2 Fire Engines and a supporting officer.
Once on scene crews confirmed smoking issuing and a fire within the kitchen of a property on the ground floor and immediately got to work to extinguish the fire using 2 Breathing Apparatus, 1 Hose Reel Jet and 1 Dry Powder extinguisher.
Crews successfully extinguished a fire involving plastic left on top of an electrical hob.