House left uninhabitable by fire (From Halstead Gazette)

House left uninhabitable by fire

9:45am Thursday 9th July 2009

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FIREFIGHTERS tackled a blaze at a house on a Colchester estate.

Two crews from Colchester and one from Wivenhoe were called to the semi-detached house in Berryman Close, on the Greenstead estate, at 12.05am.

They spent 45 minutes putting out the fire, which began in the downstairs living room.

The blaze was contained in the one room, but the rest of the house suffered severe smoke, heat and water damage.

It is being treated as suspicious.

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