More than 20 firefighters spent more than nine hours tackling a blaze at a house in Lincoln Road, Deeping Gate, Peterborough. (Image: Cambridgeshire Fire & Rescue Service)
More than 20 firefighters spent more than nine hours tackling a blaze at a house in Peterborough.
Crews from Dogsthorpe, Stanground, the Peterborough Volunteer Fire Brigade and Yaxley, along with a crew from Market Deeping in Lincolnshire, were called to Lincoln Road in Deeping Gate at 1.46am on Saturday September 23.
Firefighters arrived to find a well-developed fire involving a two-storey, detached house.
Wearing breathing apparatus, they extinguished the fire using hose reels and jets.
They returned to their stations by 11am.
The cause of the fire was accidental.
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