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Fire in washing machine creates emergency alert

Firefighters dashed to reports of a house fire in Newport.

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Shropshire Fire & Rescue Service said they received a call to a house fire in Greenfields Drive at 2.43pm on Wednesday .

Two fire appliances were mobilised from Telford Central with an operations officer.

A spokesperson for SFRS said they found that the incident had been caused by a small fire in a washing machine. It was out on their arrival.

The crew stop message was received at 3.13pm.

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