Firefighters spent an hour tackling a chimney blaze at a home in Tunstall.
One fire engine attended the incident at a property in Blaxhall Church Road in Tunstall at 1.12am today.
The blaze was extinguished at 2.09am and crews used a thermal imaging camera to check for damage.
Nobody was injured during the incident.
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