Just after 2pm today (Saturday 13 June), two pumps from Dorchester fire station and a further appliance from Weymouth Fire Station were mobilised to reports of a property fire in Poundbury, with persons reported.
Upon arrival the crews found the occupant was no longer inside but smoke was issuing from the window at a residential property on the Buttermarket.
Four breathing apparatus wearers went in with two hose reel jets and a thermal imaging camera and extinguished the fire in the sitting room of the property using a house reel jet.
Photos from Dorchester Fire Station Facebook.