Fire scare at Telford multi-storey car park after alarm glass 'deliberately' broken
The glass in a fire alarm call point was 'deliberately' broken, causing a fire scare at a Telford multi-storey car park.
Firefighters from Telford Central scrambled to the multi-storey car park at Southwater in Telford at 8.38pm on Friday.
A spokesman for Shropshire Fire & Rescue Service said: "This incident was a false alarm caused by the deliberate activation of a break-glass call point."
It was confirmed as a false alarm at 8.45pm.
Fire crews dealt with another false alarm in Shrewsbury a little later in the same evening.
Two crews were scrambled a short distance along from their base in St Michael's Street to the base of Morris Lubricants where the call was classified as a property fire.
But the crews, and an operations officer, soon discovered that it was a false alarm, caused by the activation of an intruder alarm.
A spokesman for the fire service said: "This incident was a false alarm caused by the activation of an intruder alarm at property."
