SEVEN crews of firefighters tackled a fire in a large lorry trailer on the eastbound A13 earlier this afternoon (Thursday, 22 September).

The alarm was raised around noon when the fire was spotted in the contents of the 40ft trailer. Working with the driver and the lorry's owners, crews extinguised the blaze after the lorry load was tipped onto the road and then it was reloaded by the owners have been using a grab lorry.

Station Manager Dave Bond, Incident Commander said: "Thank you to everyone for their patience while we dealt with this incident. Crews have worked as quickly as they can to extinguish this fire and we hope to have the scene cleared within the next hour.

"Thank you to the lorry's owners and our colleagues in Extreme Rescue for helping us at the scene."