Underground cables start Shipley blaze (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)
Get involved: send your pictures, video, news and views by texting TANEWS to 80360, or email
Underground cables start Shipley blaze
10:25am Thursday 29th July 2010 in
Flames leapt eight feet from the ground after a fire in an underground box of electricity cables.
Flats in Valley View, Shipley, were left without power after the box caught fire at 11.30pm on Wednesday.
A spokesman for Shipley firefighters said: “They will have heard a bang and there was an eight-foot flame coming out of the ground.”
It is thought the fire was caused by an electrical fault.
More News stories
- Murder investigation starts after Keighley death
- Witnesses sought for Bradford road crash which claimed life of girl, 17
- Two people in hospital after collision involving lorry and four cars
- Naked rambler found guilty of public order offence
- Man denies luxury cars conspiracy
- Bronte Society objects to Denholme turbine test mast
- ‘Jeweller may be next to quit Bradford city centre'
- Bradford MP David Ward welcomes insurance summit
- Death of Bradford wife, 80, remains a mystery
- Keighley fish restaurant badly damaged in blaze drama
Most popular
Local Information
Enter your postcode, town or place name
