Bin fire – Abbey ward - Cambridge

18/10/2026 4.27AM

At 4.27am on Sunday (18) crews from Cambridge, Cambourne and Cottenham were called to a fire on Riverside Place in Abbey ward in Cambridge.

Firefighters arrived to find a fire in the ground floor bin store of a building. Wearing breathing apparatus they extinguished the fire using a hose reel and cleared the smoke using a positive pressure ventilation fan.

The crews returned to their stations by 6am.

The cause of the fire was accidental.