Staff acted quickly when a baling machine caught fire at a textile works.
Watch commander Alan Holdsworth said an electrical fault or the machine overheating may have caused the “quite serious” fire at Whitaker Fibres Limited in Birksland Street, off Bowling Back Lane.
Firefighters went to the building at 8pm last night.
Mr Holdsworth said: “The workers managed to isolate the electricity supply and used an internal hose reel to stop it from spreading.”
The 18 fire service staff left workers cleaning up at about 11pm.
No-one was injured.
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