Summercourt fire destroys 37 buses in Western Greyhound fleet
Fire has ripped through a bus depot near Newquay.
The fire has destroyed at least 37 buses – a third of bus firm Western Greyhound’s fleet.
At its height, crews from St Columb, St Dennis, Newquay, St Austell, Perranporth, Wadebridge and Launceston were battling the blaze at Summercourt.
The fire in Summercourt, near Newquay, broke out in the early hours of Monday morning.
In Cornwall about a third of services are not operating or have been delayed, although services are running normally in Devon.
Western Greyhound has been operating buses in both counties since 1998.
It describes itself as a “locally based, family-run business”.
The cause of the fire is being jointly investigated by Devon and Cornwall Police and Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service.
No-one was hurt but almost forty buses have been destroyed.
150 tonnes of paper destroyed in recycling centre fire
A fire broke out at the SCA recycling centre in Mercer’s Row, Abbey at around 9.10am on 11th August.
Four crews from Cambridge, Cottenham, Huntingdon and Sawston attended the fire.
The fire destroyed over 150 tonnes of paper but it is reported that no injuries were caused by the fire and the building was not damaged.
Steve Smith from the company said: “Our site manager is meeting with fire officers this morning to try to establish the cause. We are not quite sure what happened but we do not believe it was suspicious in any way. Sometimes things like this just happen at recycling plants when the paper bales get overheated. There will not be a company investigation beyond what we are working on with the fire service.”