Dozens of firefighters have been tackling a blaze in a block of flats in Swindon this evening.
Seven fire engines – including an aerial (ladder) appliance – raced to the scene of the incident at Torrington Court, off Welcome Avenue in Park North at around 4.30pm.
Firefighters were called to the scene as plumes of smoke can be seen coming from the windows of a flat on the seventh floor of the ten-storey block.
On arrival, crews found a kitchen well alight. It was extinguished rapidly.
Welcome Avenue and Banwell Avenue were closed in both directions until around 6.30pm.
No one was hurt in the fire, and the two occupants of the flat – a mother and young son – managed to escape when the fire alarm began to sound and she discovered the kitchen ablaze.
