Woman needed medical help after house fire at home in Orton Goldhay, Peterborough

A woman needed medical treatment after a fire broke out at a home in Peterborough on Sunday night (March 17).

Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service said that at 8.36pm crews from the Peterborough Volunteer Fire Brigade and Dogsthorpe were called to a fire on Howland in Orton Goldhay, Peterborough.

Firefighters arrived to find a fire involving a bedroom in a house. Wearing breathing apparatus they extinguished the fire using a hose reel and returned to their stations by 9.30pm.

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

The cause of the fire was accidental.