Fire crews battle Shropshire wood chip blaze
Firefighters spent the night at a wood chip blaze at a renewable energy company near Much Wenlock.
Crews were called to Edge Renewables at Lea Quarry, Stretton Westwood, just before 9pm last night to be faced with a fierce fire involved an electrical wood chip drier.
It took three hours to bring the blaze under control with firefighters praised for stopping the blaze spreading to the rest of the property.
They wore breathing apparatus to get close to the seat of the fire and four main jets were used to extinguish the flames. The fire service's aerial ladder platform was also in use.
Operations manager Scott Hurford said: "There was fantastic intervention by fire crews which prevented a serious fire spreading to the rest of the business."
He said it had been a potentially serious incident.
"Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service has recently taken delivery of its newest fire appliance, the incident command unit, which supported the firefighting operation," he added.
Local people were warned to keep away from the area last night and drivers to take care on the B4371 Much Wenlock to Church Stretton road which runs alongside Wenlock Edge.
Edge Renewables specialises in wood chip supply, biomass boiler installations and servicing and maintenance across the region.
