Rubbish fire involving gas cylinders breaks out

Five fire crews attended the blaze after residents reported a loud bang
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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 fire service believed the blaze in the middle of the night was started deliberately
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