Flooding and fire calls for fire crews on Saturday

Firefighters from Slough dealt with separate flooded and fire-ravaged flats in the early hours of Saturday.

Slough and Langley crews were called to a first-floor flat fire in Britwell just as Slough firefighters were finishing tackling waterlogged flats that were drenched by a broken mains pipe in Eton.
No-one is believed to have been injured in either incident.

They were forced to wade through inches of water that had gushed out of a water mains pipe in Eton High Street.

They shut off the electrics and stopped the water supply before rushing off to the Britwell in Slough at about 2.40am to deal with the flat fire.

Michael Humphreys, blue watch crew manager, said that the fire broke out in the kitchen of the ground-floor flat in Rokesby Road.

"We know it started from the kitchen and from a chip pan fryer," he said.

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