An 18-year-old remains in hospital in critical condition following a serious house fire in Thetford.

Emergency services were called to a home in Staniforth Road on the Barnham Cross estate at 7.27pm last night (May 29).

A total of six fire crews from Norfolk and Suffolk attended the scene and used hose reel jets and main jets to extinguish the blaze with water supplemented from a hydrant.

The East of England Ambulance Service was also at the scene as well as the East Anglian Air Ambulance.

Four ambulances, three operations managers, the Hazardous Area Response Team, the Suffolk Accident Rescue Service and the East Anglian Air Ambulance were sent to the scene.

Seven patients were assessed at the scene, four of which were transported to West Suffolk Hospital, two to Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the other was discharged at the scene.

A woman in her 50s and a teenager were treated for smoke inhalation and burns while an 18-year-old man was taken by air ambulance to Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford where he remains in critical condition.

The fire was under control by 9pm and crews remained at the scene to dampen down the area.

The fire broke out at a property near the Charles Burrell Community Centre, which is home to a number of different businesses and organisations.

Following the fire, UK Power Networks turned off the power in the area to carry out "emergency repairs".

Police and fire are carrying out a joint investigation into the circumstances that led to the incident.

They are asking anyone with information or witnesses to the incident to contact Swaffham CID on 101 or DS Stephanie Plowman on stephanie.plowman@norfolk.police.uk quoting CAD 342 of 29 May 2022.

Alternatively, you can contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.