Kent firefighters tackle spate of incidents

Fire crews throughout the county of Kent have been kept busy recently with a number of callouts in the area.

On Thursday and Friday firefighters were made aware of various blazes in Sandwich and Ramsgate.

A house in Ramsgate was said to have been on fire and this required dozens of fire personnel to get the situation under control.

The blaze broke out in the early evening at a residence in Ellington Road and it took firefighters more than an hour to gain control of the situation, with the Red Cross Victim Support Unit on standby to assist the occupants of the house.

In the meantime, nearly 40 firefighters were on duty at a storage unit blaze in Sandwich, where it took them a few hours to extinguish the flames.

Fire crews from Deal, Thanet and Wingham provided additional support to the firefighters who had arrived at the scene at the shuttlecock factory in Sandown Road, helping them to bring the fire under control.

Again, in Sandwich, the Bell hotel had to be evacuated in the early hours of the morning due to a fire alarm warning.

The causes of these incidents are currently under investigation by the Kent Fire and Rescue Service.