Car fire in Colvile Road, Wisbech being treated as arson

By Jeremy Ransome

jeremy.ransome@iliffepublishing.co.uk

Published: 13:18, 04 November 2025

| Updated: 15:59, 04 November 2025

Emergency services are treating a car fire in Wisbech on Monday evening as deliberate.

A crew from the town was called to Colville Road at 7.58pm to reports of a car on fire.

Wearing breathing apparatus, firefighters extinguished the blaze and were at the scene until around 8.50pm.

Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service attended the car fire

The cause of the fire is believed to be deliberate.

A spokesman for Cambridgeshire Police said: “We received a report of a car fire in Colvile Road, Wisbech, at about 8.30pm Monday night.

“There were no injuries and no arrests. A crime of arson has been raised and filed pending any further investigative lines of enquiry coming to light.”

Anyone with information should contact the police by visiting www.cambs.police.uk to submit an online report or call Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.

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