Clothes on gas stove cause Chesterfield house blaze
Firefighters were called out yesterday afternoon to tackle a house fire in Chesterfield caused by clothes set alight by a gas stove.
The incident happened at around 3pm at a large semi-detached property on Rose Wood Close in Newbold.
Fire crews used a hose to extinguish the clothes, before taking them outside the house to ventilate the property.
The incident was declared closed at 3.25pm.