A WOMAN has been arrested in connection with a suspected arson in west Reading this afternoon.
Firefighters were called to a multiple-occupancy house for adults with learning disabilities in Wantage Road at around 3.30pm after a blaze broke out in the medication room.
All the staff and residents were evacuated safely while firefighters used hose reels and breathing apparatus to douse the flames which were contained by the fire door of the first floor room.
A 28-year-old woman from Reading was arrested shortly after the fire on suspicion of arson.
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