Thursday 19 November
13.09 West
Street, Old Market, Bristol
A man was rescued
by firefighters from the roof of a four-storey building after fire
broke out in a block of flats in Old Market.
Crews used a
turntable ladder to reach the 37-year old man, who had made his way
to the roof after seeing smoke coming from the first floor of the
property.
Two firefighters
wearing breathing apparatus (BA) and carrying a hose reel made
entry to the building and carried out a search of second and third
floors while another two firefighters wearing BA searched the first
floor and extinguished the small fire using a 45mm jet.
The fire was
contained to an area of the first floor of the building, however
the communal stairways were heavily smoke logged which compromised
the rescued man’s escape route. The man was taken to hospital by
ambulance for a check up.
The cause of the
fire is now under investigation.