Blaze at sugar factory in Bury St Edmunds among fire service call outs in west Suffolk today

Firefighters have attended to incidents in the west of Suffolk this afternoon.

The first was at 2.23pm in Emmanuel Close, Mildenhall where a shed was on fire.

One crew from the town attended at used a hose reel spray to bring the blaze under control.

At 2.56pm three crews from Bury St Edmunds were sent to a fire at the British Sugar Factor on the outskirts of the town.

The incident, in a carpentry workshop, was tackled by two firefighters wearing breathing apparatus.

They had brought the fire under control within half-an-hour using a single hose reel.