A fire has torn through an outdoor storage area at a care home in Bocking.
Two crews from Braintree were called to Millard House in Church Street at 10.45am where the blaze had completely engulfed the storage area being used to store a glass bin.
A spokesman at the home said no one was inside the outbuilding when the fire started and there were no casualties.
Firefighters extinguished the fire by 11.10am.
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