FIREFIGHTERS have put out an electrical fire in a fuse board at a Tiverton home.

Crews from Tiverton, Cullompton and Bampton were sent to the scene just before 10am on Thursday, December 19.

To fight the blaze, they used two breathing apparatus, a dry powder extinguisher, a thermal imaging camera and asked for the electricity and gas supplies to be isolated.

The fire was extinguished by 11.30am.

A female casualty suffered smoke inhalation but was checked over by ambulance crews and given the all-clear.

The cause of the fire is believed to have been accidental.