A lithium-ion battery sparked a loft fire at a property in Chandlers Ford

Crews from Eastleigh, Redbridge and Winchester were called to the property on Kingsway shortly before four o’clock on Saturday afternoon.

Smoke was issuing from the roof when they arrived, so the aerial ladder platform was called to support at the scene.

The fire is believed to have started within the battery storage system connected via cabling to the roof’s solar panels, so electrical engineers were called to the scene to isolate the power.

Wearing breathing apparatus, firefighters entered the property and extinguished the blaze using hose reel jets, before clearing the smoke with ventilation fans.

The battery was removed from the property and the temperature monitored with a thermal imaging camera.

Firefighters returned to station at around half six, with one crew returning later in the evening to conduct a reinspection of the scene.