Disaster avoided after Gosport chip shop fire

Gosport fire crew attended the fire above Frydays, in High Street, at 7.45pm on Sunday after combustibles were smouldering having been left close to a boiler.

A burst water pipe resulted in water pouring down the stairs.

Tony Read, crew manager, said: ‘We caught the fire early but it could have been bad after combustibles caught fire.

‘A lot of the work we did was salvaging the shop after water went into the fuse box from the burst pipe and went down through the floors.’

Two breathing apparatus, one hose reel and two trucks were needed to put out the inferno.

No one was injured.

Southern Electric is now fixing the electricity damage caused by the fire.

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