Underground cables start Shipley blaze

10:25am Thursday 29th July 2010

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.

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