Firefighters had to smash a window and cut through shutters to get to a fire in the basement of an empty shop in Bradford.
Crews were called to the disused premises on Westgate, close to its junction with Lumb Lane, at 8.50am yesterday.
A spokesman for West Yorkshire Fire Service said the blaze was caused by an electrical fault.
He said there was fire damage in the basement and on the shop’s ground floor, and that the Club Life nightclub, which is above the premises, suffered light smoke damage.
Staff in Rita’s Cafe, which is next door-but-one to the affected shop, said they had to evacuate six customers. One employee, who did not want to be named, said: “The customers we had in had to be evacuated.” Police closed the section of Westgate between Lumb Lane and Drewton Road.
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