House fire – March - Fenland

29/01/2022 10.52AM

At 10.52am on Saturday (29) crews from March were called to a fire on Wisbech Road in March. 

Firefighters arrived to find a fire in the bedroom of a house. Wearing breathing apparatus they extinguished the fire using hose reels and a jet and cleared the smoke using a positive pressure ventilation fan.  

The house was evacuated when the crews arrived. 

A male casualty was treated for smoke inhalation at the scene and left in the care of ambulance crews.  

The crews returned to their station by 1.50pm.

The cause of the fire was accidental.