FIREFIGHTERS raced to a Keighley flooring company yesterday after a machine caught fire.

Crews from Keighley, Silsden, Bingley, and Bradford were summoned to Ezifloor’s factory in Royd Ings Avenue at 9.30am on Wednesday.

Staff had put out the main blaze with an extinguisher and evacuated the premises by the time fire engines arrived.

But firefighters had to search pipework around the machinery extinguish hot spots that remained in the ducting.

Ezifloor, based at the Airedale Business Park, recycles waste foam by turning it into polyurethane underlays for the flooring trade.

Watch commander Steve Moorhouse, from Keighley Fire Station, said Ezifloor’s premises was filled with smoke when fire crews arrived.

He said that as part of the manufacturing process foam was ground into particles, generating heat, which led to a fire in one of the hoppers.

He said: “The fire was limited to the machine, but when we went round with thermal image cameras we found hotspots in the ducting.”