Fuse board fire

Firefighters were called to a house fire in Downey Close, Basildon at 9:34pm last night. 

On arrival, crews reported the house was heavily smoke logged with a fire on the ground floor. 

Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus entered the house to extinguish a fire in a fuse board and worked to prevent it spreading to the house next door. 

Firefighters extinguished the fire by 10:38pm. 

The house was left uninhabitable due to the smoke damage.