A SMALL fire incident took place at 1:41 am today in Chilton Cantelo.

The fire affected 100% of the premise as well as numerous vehicles externally to building

The Fire Control received a call from a member of the public stating a car on fire outside a commercial premises. 

The Fire Control immediately mobilised 1 Fire Engine from Yeovil to attend this incident. 

Once on scene crews immediately requested extra assistance due to the fire having spread to the adjacent commercial premises. 

A spokesperson confirmed: "A commercial premise well alight containing numerous Motor Vehicles crews at this point were working with 2 Hose Reel Jets and 1 Safety Jet to prevent further escalation."

At 02:23am, another assistance message was passed to control for 'Make Water Carriers 2' owing to low water supply in the area. 

Crews were at work using 2 Breathing Apparatus and 3 x 45mm Attack Jets. The incident has been sectorised now. 

Crews were at work setting up the Aerial Ladder Platform to attack the fire from above and at this time Breathing Apparatus has been discontinued and Crews have successfully retrieved 3LPG cylinders from the premises.

At 04:36 am, the crews were working to extinguish the fire externally and are in the process of scaling the incident back to 3 x Fire Engines, 1 Water Carrier, and 1 Aerial Ladder Platform. 

At 07:21, the crew received a stop message from this incident.  

The fire is now under control as stated by the team.