Firefighters were called to tackle a flat fire on Wellesley Road, Colchester, in the early hours of this morning.
Crews arrived at around 3am to find a second-floor flat heavily smoke-logged. They quickly worked to extinguish a fire that had broken out in the kitchen.
The fire is the latest in a rising trend of battery-related blazes across the UK.
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