Firefighters have tackled a house fire in an Ipswich road. 

Crews from Ipswich East and Princes Street were called to the blaze in Oxford Road at about 8pm on Saturday. 

A spokesman for Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service said the control room received a call regarding a house fire and on arrival firefighters found the fire had spread from the ground floor to the first floor. 

Crews used two breathing apparatus and one hose reel jet to extinguish the blaze.