Factory fire in Basildon

THIRTEEN vehicles were involved in a blaze in factory units in Burnt Mills Road, Basildon.

The fire started in the factory units, used for vehicle repairs and storage, just after 9pm on Friday night.

Four fire crews and the fire service’s incident command unit were called in to tackle the fire.

The fire was put out by 11.19pm. An investigation is under way into the cause of the blaze.

Comments(8)

Olivia2847 says...
12:40pm Sat 1 Dec 12

I would have thought the culprits were obvious .....

Eric Whim says...
3:11pm Sat 1 Dec 12

considering how few industrial units there are on Burnt Mills Road, especially ones that could be used to store that many vehicles I wonder if the fire was actually somewhere on the Burnt Mills Industrial Estate which, as we all know, is off Courtald Raod and not Burnt Mills Road?

Brunning999 says...
3:37pm Sat 1 Dec 12

The scrapers will be in there tonight.

Audioman says...
4:23pm Sat 1 Dec 12

Frying the bacon again !!!

Ian P says...
8:18pm Sat 1 Dec 12

Olivia2847 wrote:
I would have thought the culprits were obvious .....
Guilty until proven innocent?

Olivia2847 says...
9:18pm Sat 1 Dec 12

Ian P wrote:
Olivia2847 wrote:
I would have thought the culprits were obvious .....
Guilty until proven innocent?
And?

SaveOurStanford says...
11:36pm Sat 1 Dec 12

If its the same Units i remember there was a Fire there Before and it was assumed a Drug dealers car that had been Impounded there for forensics was Somehow caught fire and its Evidence all lost.

Olivia2847 says...
2:41am Sun 2 Dec 12

SaveOurStanford wrote:
If its the same Units i remember there was a Fire there Before and it was assumed a Drug dealers car that had been Impounded there for forensics was Somehow caught fire and its Evidence all lost.
Bingo!

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