Fire control received 999 calls in the early hours of this morning reporting a person inside a burning building.
Crews from Sherborne and Yeovil were mobilised to the blaze just after midnight.
The person managed to get out of the house before the crews arrived and extinguished the blaze in Wingfield Road, Sherborne.
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