Listed home’s roof destroyed in Appleshaw fire
A grade II listed property in Appleshaw, Hampshire was badly damaged following a house fire where 60 firefighters from Hampshire and Wiltshire were called to the scene. Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service said the roof of the family home was “well alight” when they arrived, however no-one was injured in the blaze.
The house is occupied by John Goold and his family and he described the experience: “I thought ‘That looks a bit too close to home’, and when I got back the family were in the garden in their pyjamas. “There was a lot of smoke and it was pretty scary. I can’t overstate how amazing the fire brigade were,” he said.
The cause of the fire is still being investigated.
Man dies in Barnsley house fire
Early this week three fire engines from Cudworth, Barnsley and Tankersley stations were called to a fire where the a man died.
An investigation has been taking place following the Barnsley house fire.
The man, believed to be in his 60s, was the only person in the house on Woodhall Road, Darfield. When firefighters arrived the ground floor of the semi-detached house was well alight. Wearing breathing apparatus and using hose reels to extinguish the fire the crew tackled the blaze.
A full investigation into the cause of the fire will take place today.
Permit review at A Lewis and Co waste fire site, Nantyglo
A watchdog has announced that a waste site in Wales which caught fire earlier this year and burned for over 10 days failed to meet environmental standards.
The company A Lewis and Co, who’s site is based in Nantyglo, Blaenau Gwent said it believed the fire was started deliberately.
Some waste that was moved onto nearby council land as firefighters attempted to tackle the blaze has still to be removed.
Rhys Williams, speaking on behalf of A Lewis and Co, said the firm was in discussions with Blaenau Gwent council over who was responsible for the waste, which was now more expensive to remove after becoming waterlogged during efforts to tackle the fire.
“Landfill tax is on weight. When it was on here – let’s say there were 400 tonnes of it – that 400 tonnes was soaked and doused by the fire brigade for a week and a half,” he said.
“It now weighs twice or three times what it did. Therefore, the financial consequences of that are not of our making.”
Father hospitalised after saving disabled son from Northampton house fire
Earlier this week a father helped rescue his disabled son from a house fire in a Northampton estate and is believed to have suffered burns to his shoulder.
At 8.30pm on Tuesday night a number of properties in Arbour View Court, Thorplands, were evacuated after a blaze started in a two-storey house.
It is believed that the father rescued his three children, two of whom have cerebral palsy, before firefighters arrived who then confirmed that the family managed to escape the house before emergency services arrived.
Police have said a fire investigation is continuing and a cause of the blaze is not yet known.
Fire at Alderley Edge Panacea celebrity restaurant ‘suspicious’
This wasn’t the first fire that took place at Panacea Alderley Edge. Following the incident in 2008 – days after it first opened a second “major blaze” at the Cheshire restaurant and bar popular with footballers and celebrities is being treated as suspicious by police.
The fire service was called to the Panacea restaurant in London Road, Alderley Edge at 22:30 GMT on Tuesday 12th March and ten fire crews tackled the blaze, which broke through the roof of the property.
Cheshire Police said no one was injured. Officers want to speak to two people who were seen to arrive in a car before the fire broke out who then were seen walking towards the building and then left in the car.
They are particularly keen to speak to anyone who was in the area at the time and saw a dark coloured BMW or Audi shortly before 22:30 GMT.”
Cheshire Fire Service said it was still damping down at the scene, with the damage to the building described as “extensive” and are now working closely with the authorities to establish the cause of the fire.