Firefighters had to tackle two house fires across the county in the space of 24 hours.
In the early hours of this morning, firefighters from Portadown attended a blaze in a terrace house in Ballyoran Park.
A dishwasher had caught fire and was extinguished by firefighters wearing breathing apparatus and using a hosereel jet. The incident around 12.50am.
In a separate incident, at around 2.15am on Sunday morning, appliances from Crossmaglen, Newtownhamilton and Newry as well as a water tanker from Warrenpoint station attended a fire involving a two storey detached house under construction on the Monog Road outside Crossmaglen.
Three main jets and two hosereel jets had to be deployed to extinguish the well developed blaze.
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