Fire crews scrambled to blaze on Rochdale estate

Crews rushed to tackle a blaze at a home in Rochdale this afternoon, fire services have confirmed.

Emergency services were scrambled to the Freehold estate on Tweedale Street shortly after 3pm today. Three fire engines attended and used a hose reel, a thermal imaging camera, a hearth kit and cutting equipment to extinguish the fire.

It is understood that nobody was injured in the fire, which involved wood in a concrete cavity of a four-storey residential property, according to Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS).

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At around 4.45pm Rochdale Borough Housing, who manage the estate, tweeted that fire crews were in attendance after 'a report of smoke coming from a RBH home on the Freehold estate'. They later tweeted to confirm that fire crews were leaving the scene and 'urgent repairs' were being issued to one property.

In a statement, GMFRS said: “Shortly after 3pm on Friday 17 February, firefighters were called out to a building fire on Tweedale Street, Rochdale.

“Three fire engines from Littleborough, Heywood and Chadderton – as well as a Technical Response Unit from Leigh – attended the scene where a fire involving wood in a concrete cavity of a four-storey residential property had started. Firefighters extinguished the fire using a hose reel, a thermal imaging camera, a hearth kit and cutting equipment and were in attendance for approximately two hours.”

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