28 year old man died in suspicious Bradford house fire
An investigation is now underway to determine how a fire which killed a young man in his Bradford home was started.
The victim was named as 28-year-old Amjad Hussain.
His uncle, Mohammed Shafiq, said: “A neighbour rang Saima at the school where she works and said her house was on fire. She ran all the way down but the firemen would not let her anywhere near. The neighbours told us when the firemen brought him out they would not even let the paramedics near him. They could only see his hands and they had all marks on them.”
The couple had lived at the house for about four years and have a young son.
Mr Shafiq added: “Saima is with her mother right now. She can’t get her head around what’s happened. The boy keeps asking for his daddy. She has been to the police station to talk to officers but none of us know what’s happened. They have told us it’s not just a fire death. There is more to it. They said there are circumstances they want to look at but we don’t know what they are. We have not been allowed back in the house and we have not been allowed to see him.”
Huge fire at Blackpool nightclub
Firefighters from Preston, Lancashire were drafted in to help tackle a large scale fire at a nightclub on the Fylde coast.
The crew of five travelled to Blackpool with their fire engine while crews from the resort tackled the fire at the Trades club in Chadwick Street which started at around 4am on 31st October.
Local residents were forced to evacuated and spend the night in emergency accommodation.
A spokesman for the fire service said: “Unfortunately a lot of the evidence on how the fire started has been destroyed in the demolition of the first floor to make the building safe for residents. However, police are looking at CCTV and talking to people in the area to find out how it started.”
An investigation is now underway but initial thoughts are that the fire may have been started deliberately.
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.”
40 firefighters called to Dyfed blaze
A huge fire broke out at Dyfed Cleaning Services in Milford Haven on Wednesday 13th April.
The fire on St Peters Road broke out at around midnight on Wednesday and was tackled by around 40 firefighters, 6 water tenders, 2 aerial, 2 water carriers and high volume pump and environment units.
Steve Bryant, Incident Commander said: “Our crews worked very hard throughout the night to fight and contain the fire. Both the location of the premises and a nearby Railway Line made access difficult. Crews were at the scene all night and will remain there during the day to ensure the fire is properly extinguished.”
People living in the area were advised that they may need to evacuate their homes but the firefighters managed to bring the fire under control in time.
An investigation will be carried out to determine the cause of the blaze.
Body found in flat above charity shop after fire breaks out
The body of a man has been found in a flat above a charity shop in Surbiton after a fire broke out on the 1st April.
Mr George Quback who is the manager of the Cancer Research UK Charity Shop below the flat said: “I went round the back of the shop and saw the police try to break the window, but they couldn’t do it, so they used a ladder to go through the window on the first floor. It all happened very quickly. The police and the ambulance were here in about 5 minutes. They evacuated the houses next to the building.”
A neighbour who witnessed the incident said: “We were asleep but we just heard a lot of fire alarms and then there were a lot of police coming over. We didn’t know what was happening, we looked out of our window and there was a lot of smoke. I could see it coming from the first floor above the charity shop, the smell was really strong and the whole block was in smoke. We got out of the house and our other neighbours were standing around on the street, it was really bad.”
It took firefighters around 40 minutes to bring the fire under control.
An investigation will be carried out to determine how the fire started and a post mortem is scheduled to confirm how the man died.