Rubbish fire involving gas cylinders breaks out

The picture of a housing area has been taken at night-time. There are cars and vans parked on both sides of the street, and telephone poles line the street with trees. In the background is a plume of orange smoke billowing into the sky. Louise Winifred Wheeler

Five fire crews attended the blaze after residents reported a loud bang

Residents were awoken by a loud bang in the early hours of the morning after a large rubbish fire broke out.

Crews were called to a blaze in the open between New Drove and Boleness Road in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, at just after 01:40 BST.

Firefighters from Wisbech, Thorney, March and neighbouring Norfolk worked to extinguish the blaze, which was said to have involved gas cylinders.

It was thought to have been started deliberately, Cambridgeshire fire service said.

The picture of a housing area taken at night-time. There are cars and vans parked on both sides of the street. In the background, a plume of orange smoke is billowing into the sky. Sarah Worley

The fire service believed the blaze in the middle of the night was started deliberately

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