SEVEN fire engines and an aerial ladder platform were dispatched to reports of a cooking fire at a high-rise residential building in Poole this evening.

The large emergency service response, which also included a command unit and five officers, followed a call at 6.24pm to reports of a fire.

Crews from Poole, Hamworthy, Westbourne, Redhill Park, Springbourne attended the incident in the Skinner Street area.

A Dorset & Wiltshire Fire Service spokesperson said they attended reports of a fire involving cooking which was out on arrival.