Victorian mill destroyed in blaze
Written by terry on October 29, 2012 at 10:07
A huge fire broke out at a disused mill in Blackburn in Lancashire on 23rd October.
Five fire engines and an overhead crane joined the incident at the Apex Mill near Bold Street in Blackburn at around 7pm.
The intense blaze cause the roof of the Victorian building, which was used as a reed and heald making factory until 1933, to collapse.
Local roads around the building were closed off while crews tackled the fire.
One eye witness said: “We saw the smoke at first and thought there was a car on fire nearby. But a few minutes later, the roof went up. It all happened very quickly.”
There were no casualties reported in the incident and the cause of the fire is not yet known.
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