Alert as fire service attends launderette fire
Alert as fire service attends launderette fire
It is urged that anyone who live close to an industrial fire in a Kent town that started early on Tuesday morning keep their windows and doors closed.
ten fire engines were dispatched by Kent Fire and Rescue Service (KFRS) to an industrial fire on Northwood Road in Ramsgate.
When workers arrived, the “whole building was ablaze,” and Nick Scott, KFRS area manager for operational response, told BBC Radio Kent that the “challenge was to contain it.”
He claimed that at approximately 04:30 BST, KFRS got multiple reports of smoke and fires in the vicinity.
Crews discovered a sizable industrial building that they assumed to be a laundromat “well alight” upon arrival.
Mr. Scott went on, “It was a sizable fire. The task at hand was to confine it and stop its spread to other structures in order to safeguard the neighborhood and the nearby property.”
There are currently two fire engines on the scene as the KFRS response is being trimmed down.
As of 20:00, the agency reported that firefighters were still dousing hotspots and had made “good progress” on the fire.
There have been no reported injuries.
Residents are still advised to keep their doors and windows closed.
The building had “considerable amount” of structural damage, according to Mr. Scott, but fire fighters will leave the site with the structure “as safe as it can be”.
The volunteer lifeboat crew from Ramsgate station, along with station staff, their partners, and their kids, participated in the Great Ramsgate Spring Clean event on a sunny Saturday morning, April 9. Equipped with garbage bags and gloves, they got to work cleaning the area around the harbor and Western Undercliff Beach.
The Ramsgate Litter Forum, Ramsgate Town Team, Thanet District Council, and Ramsgate Town Council collaborated to organize the three-week-long Great Ramsgate Spring Clean Event, which took place from March 25 to April 10.
The Ramsgate RNLI crew contributed seventeen of the 282 bags of debris that were hauled from the town over the course of the three weeks.
