SIR - I live quite close to the mill fire on Thornton Road, so I was confined indoors for quite a while.

I had a good view of our services in action - wonderful. What an eye-opener. In atrocious conditions, they worked so efficiently, the police, fireman, ambulance men standing by just in case. They all worked so efficiently together.

One policeman had to direct pedestrians to take a long alternative route and they were not pleased but he never lost his cool!

I also must thank the electricity board for getting our power back by teatime. I understood all the cables had been burned out.

Susan Bannon, Glyn Terrace, Bradford