Incident
Property fire
Date
1.11pm - 17 March 2022
Last updated
11.51am - 04 April 2022
Status
Closed
Incident type
Domestic
Location
Winkleigh
Attending station
North Tawton
Okehampton
Torrington
Three fire appliances were mobilised to reports of a fire in a domestic property at the above location.
On arrival the incident commander confirmed there to be a fire in the ground floor kitchen involving a boiler and got crews to work to extinguish the fire using breathing apparatus, a hose reel jet, a covering jet, safety jet and a thermal imaging camera. Smoke was then removed from the property using a positive pressure ventilation fan.
The fire was thought to have started accidentally.