Firefighters tackle blaze involving lorry and car in Linton High Street

People are being told to avoid Linton High Street to allow the vehicles involved in a “well-developed” blaze to be recovered.

Firefighters were called to the scene of the fire, which involved a lorry and a car, shortly after 10.10am.

A crew from Cambridge, along with the south roaming fire engine and a crew from Newmarket in Suffolk, attended the scene.

Lorry driver Mark Ratcliffe, who was delivering to a property in Linton, told the Cambridge Independent: “As I came down the road, I could smell smoke so I pulled over.

“There was smoke coming into the cab, so I jumped out, grabbed the fire extinguisher out the toolbox and squirted under the front driver’s wheel because there was hot plastic or rubber or something dropping down, so I squirted the fire extinguisher and it just went ablaze.”

At that point, Mark, of the company JJ Hefferon, stepped away the vehicle and waited for the fire service, who had been called by multiple people, to arrive.

There were reports of multiple explosions as the blaze took hold, which blew out the windows of nearby properties.

A fire service spokesperson said: “Firefighters arrived to find a well-developed fire involving a lorry and a car. Wearing breathing apparatus they extinguished the fire using hose reels and a jet.”

The road remains closed to allow the vehicles to be recovered.