FIREFIGHTERS were called to Parkwood Court, Tavistock, last Thursday (January 15) after a report that a microwave in a flat was smoking.

Two crews from Tavistock attended just before 10.10pm and found a small fire in a flat, involving a wheat bag in a microwave oven.

Firefighters used two sets of breathing apparatus and a hose reel jet and removed the microwave to the open air to extinguish.

A positive pressure fan was used to ventilate the property.