Former Barnsley Working Men’s club destroyed in fire
South Yorkshire firefighters were called to a large fire at a disused working men’s club in Barnsley on 13th November.
Crews spent about six hours at the disused club on Farm Road, Kendray, Barnsley, after the blaze was reported at 12.30am. Within 30 minutes of crews arriving, around 50% of the building had collapsed.
Due to the serious structural problems of the building, crews had to tackle the flames from outside the building using combined aerial rescue pump and jets on the ground.
Firefighters from Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Tankersley, Cudworth and Dearne attended the incident.
Crew manager Gavin Jones from Barnsley Fire Station, said: “When we pulled up we could barely see in front of us, or where the club even was, because there was so much thick smoke. Because there were no reports of people trapped or the possibility of people inside we did not enter the building – it was too unsafe. Within half an hour half of it had collapsed.”
The cause of the fire is not yet known and an investigation will now be carried out.
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25 Firefighters arrived at the scene just off Vale Road, to find the main building, which is a wooden structure, in flames.
Stuart Nicholson from the fire service said: “We suspect acetylene cylinders are inside the building but we have not confirmed yet if we have been able to put water on the cylinders. We are pumping around 3,000 litres of water per minute onto the fire from the River Don and have all but extinguished the flames. There is very little remaining of the building. It could be a further 24 hours before we can get closer to the site to carry out our investigation because of the risk of cylinders being involved in fire.”
It is thought that no one was on sight at the time of the fire. A safety cordon was set up around the area due to fears of acetylene cylinder explosions.
It is not yet known how the fire started but a full investigation will now be carried out.