FIREFIGHTERS from Dawlish and Teignmouth responded to reports of a fire in a property at Richmond Place, Dawlish, in the early hours of this morning (Sunday).
On arrival at the scene just before 2am crews discovered a fire in a fire alarm detector head in a ground floor stairwell.
A spokesman for Devon and Somerset Fire and rescue Service said: ‘Fire crews used two breathing apparatus, one hose reel jet, one covering jet and two thermal imaging cameras to extinguish the fire.
‘There was fire damage to approximately one square metre surrounding the faulty detector head and approximately thirty per cent smoke damage to the stairwell.’