FIREFIGHTERS were called to a chimney fire in Carn Brea, Redruth last night at 10:45pm.

One appliance from Tolvaddon attended. The crew used stirrup pump and rods to extinguish burning embers and then thoroughly investigated the chimney area with a thermal image camera to reveal further hotspots. The crew then used small tools to cut away to get to the hotspots and put them out. After some time of checking the scene was crews left the scene in the hands of the occupiers.