Firefighters used specialist equipment to help deal with a blaze in a derelict terraced house yesterday.
Two appliances, including a ladder platform, were sent to tackle the fire in an empty house in Ewehurst Parade, Dipton, near Stanley, just before 4am. The roof of the building was destroyed in the blaze and the rest of the house was severely damaged.
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