Spring Road, Ettingshall, Wolverhampton, UK
Shortly after 4.05pm on Friday 13 October, we responded to an incident on Spring Road, Ettingshall, Wolverhampton. Seven fire engines and a 4×4 brigade response vehicle responded, crewed by 42 firefighters. This was a fire in the front yard of a builders merchant, involving approximately 35 tonnes of timber and a forklift truck. Firefighters were at the scene for several hours, and extinguished the fire before hecking for hotspots with a thermal imaging camera. Spring Road was closed by police for a time but reopened when firefighting operations ended.. We left the scene at 10.49pm. A crew returned to the site twice through the night and into Saturday morning to check for hotspots, but none were found. We believe this fire started accidentally.
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