Firefighters have extinguished a cooker on fire inside a Billingham house

Burnt items inside a cooker sparked a small fire at a Billingham house.
An oven caught fire in Weardale Crescent in Billingham.An oven caught fire in Weardale Crescent in Billingham.
An oven caught fire in Weardale Crescent in Billingham.

Officers from Cleveland Fire and Rescue were called to the house in Weardale Crescent at 11.38am today.

Firefighters removed items from the appliance to extinguish the flames.

The inside of the cooker had suffered slight fire damage.