Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service

Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service says four crews attended the scene of the fire.

Plans to tighten life-threat house fire responses from 10 minutes to nine go to public consultation.

Corby and Kettering will get new police stations and Kettering also gets a replacement fire station.

People living nearby are asked to keep windows and doors shut because of the large plume of smoke.

The fire service says gas cylinders were removed from a nearby shed as a safety precaution.

It will be built on the site of the current "outdated" 1970s station, a fire service says.

Residents are told to keep doors and windows shut because of the heavy smoke.

The fire service says the blaze in the roof of a thatched house "quickly spread".