Crew walks to deal with nearby blaze (From Bournemouth Echo)

Crew walks to deal with nearby blaze

11:31am Thursday 28th February 2013 in News

FIREFIGHTERS barely had to leave their station to deal with a blaze yesterday morning.

Crews from Springbourne were called at 8am to Richmond Park Close.

Incident commander Richard Chave, said: “This is definitely the closest fire Springbourne fire crews have attended.

“As the night shift was leaving, they spotted the fire about 20m away from the station.

“At the same time, fire control alerted us and the station bells went off. We were able to unravel hose in the drill yard and start dealing with the incident before our colleagues from Westbourne and Redhill Park arrived.”

The fire involved some children’s toys at the side of a ground floor flat and a kitchen window, waste pipe and outside wall also suffered damage.

Firefighters believe it was started by carelessly discarded smoking material and advised people not to throw cigarettes away carelessly or store items close to a property.

Karla Miller, who lives in the flat with her family, said: “We’ve had a few issues with smoking materials being discarded carelessly. We are really grateful for being so close to the fire station, it could have been so much worse as we were all asleep.”