A man was treated for the effects of smoke inhalation following a house fire in Ipswich today.

Paramedics and firefighters were called, at around 12.20pm, to a three bedroom semi-detached house in Hilton Road.

The blaze started in a bedroom on the first floor of the property but spread no further throughout the house.

Fire crews from Princes Street and Colchester Road stations used breathing gear and a single hose to tackle the flames, which were under control by 12.46pm.

Paramedics treated a man at the scene for the effects of mild smoke inhalation but he did not need hospital treatment.

Earlier, in Bury St Edmunds, two fire crews from the town were called to Bang Bangs restaurant in Hatter Street.

A small electrical fire had broken in a fuse box at around 1.20pm but firefighters were able to get the flames under control using dry powder extinguishers by 1.43pm.

Elsewhere, fire crews remain at the scene of an undergrowth fir in Brandon. A crew from the town were called at 1.43pm to reports of a fire off the B1106. They were joined shortly afterwards by engines from Thetford and Sudbury and are still on scene.

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