Property fire

Multiple calls were received from members of the public reporting a large fire at a warehouse on Langage Business Park in Plympton yesterday evening. Initially, 3 pumping appliances and an aerial ladder platform were mobilised from our Plympton, Crownhill and Greenbank stations in Plymouth. However within minutes of arriving the attendance was immediately increased by a further 3 pumping appliances attending from Crownhill, Greenbank and Camels Head stations (again all Plymouth stations) together with supporting appliances and later relief crews attending from Totnes, Torquay, Ivybridge, Newton Abbot, Ashburton, Princetown, Bere Alston, Okehampton and Buckfastleigh. 

Update - 0800hrs - This is a large scale incident involving a factory/warehouse which spread quickly engulfing the whole building and eventually has ended up with a partial collapse. Crews worked through the night to prevent the fire from spreading to adjacent industrial units, mainly using 2 aerial ladder platforms with monitoring hose reel jets from above the fire, together with crews firefighting on the ground level. This incident is still ongoing but has been scaled back to 2 fire appliances and an aerial ladder platform. The company was closed at the time of call and we are happy to report there were no casualties. The cause of the fire has yet to be confirmed as crews are still damping down and monitoring hotspots.

Update - 1327hrs - This was a fire in a commercial building separated into three units. The first unit was severely damaged by heat and smoke, the second was partially damaged by heat and smoke and the third had light smoke damage.

Crews were unable to enter the building due to structural collapse. Cause believed to be accidental.