A PET tortoise was rescued from a house fire this morning. 

A total of five fire crews attended a fire at a two-storey house in Tisbury this morning at around 8.30am.

The fire was located in a first-floor bedroom by the first crews on scene.

Further appliances were requested to enable the loft space to be checked for fire spread but it was unaffected.

Firefighters used four breathing apparatus, three hose reel jets and a thermal imaging camera to extinguish the fire.

Crews responded from Mere, Shaftesbury, Gillingham, Warminster and Salisbury.

The pet tortoise was rescued from the property and given oxygen. Dorset and Wiltshire Fire Rescue Service said that the occupiers were not at home at the time of the incident.