Yeovil fire crews respond to garden fire after alarm

Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service received reports of a fire alarm activating at around 11pm on Thursday, May 14 at a property in the Southway Drive area of Yeovil.

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Fire control sent the on-call crew at Yeovil Fire Station to the scene in a fire engine and once they arrived, they got to work investigating the cause of the alarm and the smell of smoke in the property.

After investigating, fire crews discovered a fire in the back garden consisting of smoking materials.

This was successfully extinguished with buckets of water and the smoke was cleared using positive pressure ventilation fan.