House fire – Whittlesey - Fenland

22/10/2026 8.54PM

At 8.54pm on Thursday (22) crews from Whittlesey, Stanground and Thorney were called to a fire on Burdett Grove in Whittlesey.

Firefighters arrived to find a fire in a 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.

Two casualties were treated for smoke inhalation and left in the care of ambulance crews.

The crews returned to their stations by 11pm.

The cause of the fire was accidental.