Flat fire - Cherry Hinton - Cambridge

12/12/2024 11.07AM

At 11.07am on Thursday (12) two crews from Cambridge and the south roaming fire engine were called to a ground floor flat fire on Mallets Road in Cambridge.

Wearing breathing apparatus firefighters used hose reels to extinguish the fire, which had started in a bedroom.

The cause of the fire is believed to be accidental caused by smoking materials.

A woman aged in her 80s sadly died at the scene.