A van caught fire at the rear of a block of flats in Chatteris. 

One crew from Chatteris was called to the blaze on Old Station Place at 10pm on Wednesday July 5.

Firefighters arrived to find a van on fire at the rear of a of a block of flats.

Wearing breathing apparatus they extinguished the fire using a hose reel and cleared the smoke from the flats using a positive pressure ventilation fan.

The crew returned to their station by 10.55pm.

The cause of the fire was accidental.