Crews attend fire in Margate home

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Fire crews have attended an incident in Margate.

Emergency services were called at 7pm tonight (July 27) to a fire in the basement of a two-storey house in Church Street.

Crews wearing breathing apparatus used a hose reel to put out the blaze and a positive pressure ventilation fan to clear smoke from the premises. There were no reported injuries and the cause is not yet known.

The scene was made safe by 7.20pm