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Fire crews tackle East Devon industrial blaze

Eight appliances from across Devon and Somerset were sent to the incident

Fire crews from across Devon & Somerset have been fighting a large industrial blaze through the night in East Devon.

They received the call just before 11pm at Crawley near Yarcombe.

On arrival, the Incident Commander confirmed there was a fire in processing machinery of the commercial property.

Crews got to work on tackling the blaze, which was scaled down to four appliances at around 3.30am.

Officers say the fire was put out by 6am, with the cause accidental ignition due to milling machinery. It caused 15% damage to the machine.

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