A PERSON was taken to hospital by air ambulance after a fire in Cirencester on Sunday evening (September 18). 

Two ambulance crews and an air ambulance attended the incident around 6pm in Ermin Place.

The patient was taken to Southmead Hospital in Bristol by air ambulance. 

In these photos you can see thick black smoke rising into the air.

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Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard:

A spokesperson for the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust said: “We were called at 6.04pm on Sunday, September 18 to a fire in Cirencester. 

“We sent a double-crewed land ambulance, an operations officer and an air ambulance.

“We conveyed one patient to Southmead Hospital by air ambulance.” 

The helicopter was from Great Western Air Ambulance who attended with one critical care doctor and two specialist paramedics.

Ermin Place is near Tesco, McDonald's and Aldi at Kingsmeadow Services on the A419 Cirencester Road.