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Firefighters tackle West Bromwich textiles unit blaze | |
(about 4 hours later) | |
Some 75 firefighters have been tackling a blaze at an industrial property in the West Midlands. | |
Fire crews were called to BCR Global Textiles recycling unit on Greets Green Road, West Bromwich, at 01:52 GMT. | |
A fire service spokesman said most of the property had been damaged by hundreds of tonnes of burning material. | |
The cause of the fire is not yet known and a scaled-down presence was expected at the site for some time as damping down continued. | |
Station Commander Jason Campbell said: "At its height there was approximately 80% of the building involved in fire. | |
'Roof collapse' | |
"It's full of textiles because they operate a recycled clothing business from here. We had an inward roof collapse. | |
"It was unsafe for us to put firefighters inside so we then moved to an external attack and used the aerial platform to apply water from a safe position outside. | |
"Obviously, being a flammable material, they burn quite readily so we were getting quite a high energy and heat output from that fire that led to the collapse. | |
"Ultimately the building's going to have to be pulled apart so we can get in to put out any remaining hotspots." | |
Greets Green Road has re-opened after being closed at the height of the blaze. |
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