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Firefighters break into smoke-filled home near Shrewsbury

Firefighters broke into a house near Shrewsbury to tackle a fire caused by unattended cooking left on the hob.

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Church Road, Dorrington. Picture: Google Maps

Fire crews from Church Stretton and Shrewsbury were scrambled to Church Road, in Dorrington, to reports of a house fire at 11.07 am on Tuesday.

When they arrived with an operations officer they used tools to break into the property and used one hose reel water jet and a thermal camera to tackle the incident.

A spokesman for Shropshire Fire & Rescue Service said the fire was caused by unattended cooking left on hob, leaving the property full of smoke.

The crews declared the incident was over at 11.53am.

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