Thursday, October 4, 2007

Shopping centre blaze started by radio

Published Date: 04 October 2007
Location: Peterborough

9.30AM: A FIRE investigation launched in the wake of a blaze at the Queensgate Shopping Centre has found it was started accidentally - by an electrical fault in a portable radio.
A vast amount of stock was damaged by smoke and the mall was flooded when the fire in a storeroom at the Next store triggered the centre's sprinkler system.

At one point, thousands of gallons of water flooded the mall and seeped into shops below.

Fire crews were called at 7.45pm on Tuesday night and the clean up operation was concluded at 10.50pm.

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Last Updated: 04 October 2007 9:34 AM

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