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Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service have a busy bonfire night

By Shropshire Live6 November 2011
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Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service were kept busy with a number of incidents across the county during bonfire night.

Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service have a busy bonfire night

Throughout the evening crews were called to a number of rubbish and wheelie bin fires in Donnington, Stirchley, Sutton Hill, Oakengates, Ditherington in Shrewsbury and Rhydycroesau, near Oswestry. In the Brookside area of Telford four rubbish fires were dealt with.

In Tureff Avenue, Donnington a shed was badly damaged by fire at around 7pm, one crew from Wellington attended the scene.

A large shed fire was later dealt with by crews from Wellington and Telford stations at 8.16pm in King Street Wellington.

In Shrewsbury, firefighters attended what was initially reported as a house fire in Windermere Road, they arrived to find a quantity of furniture and refuse had been set alight at around 7.10pm.

At just after 9pm Firefighters from Oswestry and Chirk attended the scene of an overturned vehicle on Overton Road in St Martins, crews assisted by making vehicle electrically safe.

Firefighters were also called to a house fire at The Wharfage in Whitchurch. Four appliances and the aerial ladder platform were used to tackle the blaze, which broke out at around 9.30pm last night.

  • Brookside
  • Chirk
  • Ditherington
  • Donnington
  • Oswestry
  • Shrewsbury
  • Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service
  • Stirchley
  • Sutton Hill
  • Telford and Wrekin
  • Wellington
  • Whitchurch
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