A LOFT was slightly damaged by fire at a bungalow in York Road, Wilpshire, at 1.05pm yesterday.

An alarm engineer was working on the alarm system, and was in the process of testing it when it caught fire.

The blaze was confined to the alarm panel, and there was slight damage to the roof trusses and wooden flooring.

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