TWENTY five firefighters were called to a chemical leak at a holiday park.

Crews from four stations were called to the Sandy Balls site near Fordingbridge in the New Forest at about 1.30pm after chlorine leaked from a pump linked to the swimming pool there.

One man was overcome by fumes as 50 litres of the chemical leaked out inside the pump room, but he was treated at the scene by paramedics and did not need to go to hospital.

A 200-metre cordon was set up around the site as fire crews from Fordingbridge, Ringwood, Winchester and Redbridge used granules to absorb the chlorine.

By 4.30pm the teams had cleared the site of the spilled chlorine.