It started in a property's ground floor and "spread quickly" to the roof, the fire service says. Twenty years after devastating floods, villagers fear being cut off in any future emergencies.

More than 70 firefighters were called to fight a fire in a home in Boscastle on Saturday ... in the ground floor and "spread quickly" to the roof. They said crews from Bodmin, Bude, Delabole ...

In 1952 a flash flood in Lynmouth, Devon, caused the death of 34 people as debris smashed into buildings. Exactly 52 years later, an eerily similar event struck Boscastle in Cornwall.