Fire engines raced to tackle a flat fire in the early hours of this morning, with one person passed into the care of the paramedics.

People were forced to evacuate their homes in the middle of the night after flames engulfed a block of flats.

Firefighters have left the scene of a major barn blaze which saw around 1,500 tonnes of hay go up in flames.

Firefighters have been working to control the smoke from a barn fire for 18 hours.

A suspected arson attempt was tackled by fire crews last night as nearly 100 hay bales were destroyed.

Firefighters using breathing apparatus tackled a fire at a house last night.

A woman was treated by medics after emergency crews were called to a house fire.

A delivery van has crashed into the front of a house belonging to a mum with four children.

Firefighters were called after a lorry hit power cables leaving them lying in the road and across a pavement.

Tributes have been paid to a loving mum, wife, sister and nan who died after an explosion at her bungalow.

Fire crews remain at the scene after a blaze ripped through three workshop buildings in the early hours of this morning.

Motorists are facing long delays on the M25 after a lorry fire in the early hours.

As the community reels from a bungalow explosion which left a woman seriously injured in hospital, we recount what we know so far…

A woman has been flown to a London hospital after an explosion at a bungalow this morning.

A hospital has cancelled appointments after having to shut its minor injuries unit after a patient arrived with a “substance” on their skin.

It has emerged that a tower block of flats was only partially evacuated during a recent fire because the building has a “stay-put“ policy.

A car was completely destroyed when it was engulfed in flames on a residential street.

Residents were told to leave their homes after a fire broke out on the balcony of a flat in a town centre tower block.

Firefighters tackled a blaze at a recycling centre which is believed to have been started in machinery.