Huge fire destroys business premises in Peterborough city centre
At 1.07am on Wednesday, June 27, emergency services were called to a fire on Cobden Street in Peterborough.
Crews from Dogsthorpe, Stanground, the Peterborough Volunteers Fire Brigade, Yaxley, Whittlesey, and Thorney, along with a water carrier from Ramsey and the incident command unit from Huntingdon, attended the scene.
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Hide AdFirefighters arrived to find a well-developed fire in a factory unit, measuring around 50 by 10 metres. Using jets and hose reels they extinguished the fire and returned to their stations by 8am.
Nobody was injured in the fire.
Eyewitness Eliezer Costa, who took this video of the fire, said the building was used as a commercial laundry, Anglia Laundry Services.
An investigation is now underway to determine the cause of the fire.