Ex-fireman tackles blaze

The man used a foam extinguisher to contain the fire in one of the frying ranges at Brimington Fish Bar in High Street before crews from Chesterfield and Staveley arrived.

No-one was injured in the incident, at around 4.30pm, but the shop had to be closed while engineers were called out to fix the fryer.

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plume of black smoke drifted across Burngreave and Pitsmoor yesterday afternoon after a fire started in an outbuilding. Fire crews were called to Bressingham Road at around 4.30pm.

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faulty mobility scooter caught fire as it was parked up outside a house - and the blaze spread into a bedroom. Fire crews were called to a house in Kirkstone Road, Newbold, Chesterfield, yesterday morning.