Firefighters tackled a blaze in a garage twice in the same evening.

Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service were called to the fire on Longrigg Road in Ditchingham at 3.25pm on Sunday, December 31.

Appliances from Loddon, Harleston and Carrow, as well two more from Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service in Bungay and Lowestoft, went to the scene.

Crews wore breathing apparatus and used main jets and hose reel jets to put out the fire and left the property after 5pm.

Beccles & Bungay Journal: Fire service members investigate the scene of a fire at a garage on Longrigg Road in Ditchingham on January 2. Fire service members investigate the scene of a fire at a garage on Longrigg Road in Ditchingham on January 2. (Image: Daniel Hickey)

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Firefighters then returned to the house, which was unoccupied, where they carried out further damping down.

The second stop message was received at 8.42pm.

On Tuesday morning (January 2), fire service members were surveying the scene, where the garage was completed gutted by the blaze and the side wall of the house was damaged.

Neighbour John Broadbent, 66, said he was walking his dog on Sunday evening when he saw fire engines all over the road.

He said the smoke had stopped and the fire engines left but that 25 minutes later he saw more smoke and then the fire appliances were "back again".