Fuse box fire leaves Basildon home uninhabitable as it fills with smoke (Image: Google / stock image)
A Basildon home has been left uninhabitable after a fire in a fuse box.
Firefighters were called to a house fire in Downey Close, Basildon at 9.34pm last night.
On arrival, crews reported the house was heavily smoke logged with a fire on the ground floor.
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Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus entered the home to extinguish a fire in a fuse board and worked to prevent it spreading to the house next door.
Firefighters extinguished the fire in a little over an hour, by 10.38pm.
The house was left uninhabitable due to the smoke damage.
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