Crews from across the Norwich area tackled a house fire overnight in Sprowston near the recreation ground. 

Appliances from Sprowston, Carrow and Earlham, including their aerial ladder platform, attended a house fire in Neville Road at 10.40pm on Tuesday night (November 7).

Crews wore breathing apparatus and used main jets and hose reel jets to extinguish the fire.

A thermal imaging camera was used to check for hot spots and the incident was declared over at 1.24am on Wednesday. 

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An East of England Ambulance Service spokesperson said: “We were called at 10.45pm on Tuesday, November 7 to a house fire in Neville Road in Sprowston.

"An ambulance, two ambulance officer vehicles, two rapid response vehicles, three vehicles from the Hazardous Area Response Team (HART) and a response car from the East Anglian Air Ambulance were sent to the scene.

"We stood down by colleagues from the Fire and Rescue Service after no people were found in the property.”

A spokesperson from Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service said: “We are currently investigating the cause of a large house fire that happened in Neville Road Sprowston at about 10.40pm last night.

“Crews from Sprowston, Carrow and Earlham attended the fire, which had spread to both floors of the house and the roof - no one was inside the building.

“Crews remained on scene until 2.15am today and went back to the house again later in the morning.”