Firefighters extinguish accidental house fire

Fire crews have extinguished an accidental house fire in Stoke-on-Trent.

We were called just before 9am yesterday (Wednesday 7 May) to a house on Corneville Road, Bucknall, following reports of a fire in the roof.

Three appliances attended the scene and used breathing apparatus and an aerial ladder platform (ALP) to extinguish the fire.

Nobody was reported injured and the fire was later deemed to have been caused accidentally, by a solar panel isolation switch overheating.