Police probe arson attack that saw eight engines sent to 'spreading fire' - Stoke-on-Trent Live
Police have launched an arson investigation into a 'large fire' in an outbuilding that rapidly tore through grassland. And the incident in Wincle - on the Cheshire and Staffordshire border - saw eight fire engines brought in.
Today and Cheshire Police is appealing for witnesses after firefighters believe the storage container blaze had been started deliberately. Engines from Macclesfield, Bollington, Congleton and Wilmslow, had initially been sent to Ridge Hill just before 1.55am yesterday (May 21) morning to 'tackle a large fire in an outbuilding that had spread to surrounding grassland.
Further resources from Crewe, Ellesmere Port and Knutsford were brought in around four hours later with the blaze, at its height, consuming an area of around 100 by 100 metres. As firefighters battled the blaze, using hose reel jets and fire beaters, nearby residents were told to keep their window s and doors shut.
Crews spent more than eight hours at the rural location where Ridge Lane also had to be shut. A spokesperson for Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service said: "An investigation has now taken place, and it is believed this fire was started deliberately in a storage container."
Witnesses should call 101 and quote IML 2094395.
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