House fire – Hempsted - Peterborough

11/07/2023 9.05AM

At 9.05am on Tuesday (11) crews from Dogsthorpe and Yaxley, along with the north roaming fire engine, were called to a fire on Boroughfield Road in Hempsted, Peterborough. 

Firefighters arrived to find a well-developed fire in the kitchen of a house. Wearing breathing apparatus they extinguished the fire using a hose reel and cleared the smoke using a positive pressure ventilation fan. They returned to their stations by 11.50am. 

The cause of the fire was accidental.