Saturday 4 October
03.49 Halston Drive, St Paul’s
Around ten people
living in a block of flats in St Paul’s were evacuated early on a
Saturday morning after two rubbish bins were set alight in the
building.
Firefighters took
the step of evacuating the residents of two flats after their homes
became smoke logged as a result of the fire in the ground floor bin
room..
Crews used a
hosereel to extinguish the fire and brought in the Positive
Pressure Ventilation fan (PPV) to disperse the smoke.
No one was injured
following the incident and the residents were later able to return
to their homes.