Fire crews tackle March house fire which leaves two women needing medical treatment

Two women had to be treated for smoke inhalation following a house fire in March on Sunday morning.

It took firefighters almost three hours to deal with the incident after they were called at 10.56am with crews from March, Chatteris and Wisbech attending the fire on Peyton Avenue.

A spokesperson for Cambridgeshire fire service said: "Firefighters arrived to find a fire in a first-floor bedroom of a house. Wearing breathing apparatus they extinguished the fire using hose reels and a jet. Two female casualties required treatment for smoke inhalation and were left in the care of ambulance crews.

"The crews returned to their stations by 1.45pm. The cause of the fire was accidental."