Second call to fire at disused ice cream factory in Weston Mill - scene of repeated arson attacks
Firefighters and police have been called to a suspected arson at a disused ice cream factory in Weston Mill – for the second time in as many days.
Three appliances from Crownhill and Camels Head station have been at the scene of the fire in Bridwell Road this afternoon while police have been asked to assist in keeping the roadway clear.
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Second call to fire at disused ice cream factory in Weston Mill - scene of repeated arson attacks
Crews were called to the location at around 3.15pm today although they have told The Herald firefighters were called out to the same location on Wednesday at 5.30pm.
Watch manager Simon Kerr of Camels Head fire station said today’s fire started within the old refrigeration unit on the ground floor.
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He said: “By the time we got here the flames were already coming out of the roof.”
In all 14 firefighters tackled the blaze with four wearing breathing apparatus due to concerns over asbestos in the building’s roof.
The derelict ice cream factory has repeatedly been targeted by fire bugs in recent years. In October 2011 The Herald reported on a fire in the early hours being tackled by three fire crews. At the time, firefighters said they hoped the incident would finally trigger the demolition of the property, which sits close to dozens of homes .
In March 2008, neighbours raised the alarm when flames tore through nearly half of the property . The factory was ravaged by fire again that September, the blaze destroying around 80 per cent of its contents. The following January, arsonists targeted two disused ice cream vans parked outside the building, destroying both.
Following the October 2011 incident one firefighter at the scene told The Herald: "These incidents have a huge impact on local residents.
"We're hoping this will lead to demolition; we've been called out here far too many times."
Watch manager Kerr said fire investigators and police would now carry out an inquiry to determine the cause of both today and yesterday’s fires.
6 Comments
by HermesThelema
Saturday, March 16 2013, 1:19AM
“In an esoteric language which probably originated from somewhere near Freemasonry:
3.15 Jeroboam Jeroboam; 5.30 Paired navigational compasses Skull and cross-bones
Celebrate name in both names; A plot unfolds in a southward path
Jesus Christ what the Hell are you still doing standing here Satan
I know that by making a voice in universe shine enlightenment I'm risking offence via an act which may be cruel to kids as it is robbing them of their ice cream vehicles and a shrink may say I'm sexually frustrated
Yet in my head there is a voice screaming that there is something wrong here, so if your head is so peckered-up as to be driving you mad too lets try and make some consensual sense of things here
Supposedly the 'signs are all here, the collapse of politics, the fall of the press, the distance of the police from the street', normally in the winter badger season of 'Golum across the marshes' or 'the blind leading the blind' or 'best wrap things up before Easter one way or the others' leads your troops [Freemasonry] into sewage-suicide yet as we can all see the pressures of society under your governorship, Grand Master [Freemasonry] are leading in lines in lies to a path which causes an argument rather than settling the matter one way or the other or enabling either to see their own direction and your next line [Freemasonry] would suggest that your are deliberately leading the country into a path which will lead to civil war.
Therefore;
Grand Master, Freemasonry;
British Prime Minister David Cameron
In thirty-three degrees, in third decree in rite
Would I suggest you by your mere presence are guilty in de'light
Freemasonry, Church of Scientology, your systems are fake!”
by greasyian
Thursday, March 14 2013, 11:14PM
“the arsonist has melted away after dialing 99 !!”
by LHPlymouth
Thursday, March 14 2013, 10:21PM
“Well said RoundHead0!!!!”
by MissAnthrope
Thursday, March 14 2013, 9:22PM
“What a load of waffle. This story is hardly a big scoop. They should cone the area off before it ripples through the community. The neopolitan police need to act now before tonight's thunder and lightening or are they a load of Mr Softys blowing a raspberry? Walls could become dangerous, paint could flake, hundreds and thousands of fish could be affected.”
by RoundHead0
Thursday, March 14 2013, 4:54PM
“Weston Mill, oh yes, where MVV's wasteful incinerator is being built. The furnace fumes released from the 95 metre high chimney will be poisoning the atmosphere over the whole of Plymouth, everyday for at least 40 more years! An hour or two during one afternoon of fire at a derelict building complex just doesn't come anywhere near to the decades of damage MVV's fire will do to this city.
And yet The Herald, a woefully inadequate publication, staffed by educationally subnormal corporate bottom sniffers who's collective idiocy is outdone only by their editor, see fit to ignore the facts on mass burn incineration in favour of actively promoting it, often paraphrasing or simply reprinting MVV's own corporate literature.
Oh yes, Neil Shaw has Paul Carey answered all those questions you and he promised would be following the live online 2 hour session in which Paul Carey didn't actually answer anything?
The hard hitting technical questions he "didn't have time to" and "couldn't type fast enough" answer?
Has he had enough time to come up with some more sidestepping contradictory statements, more lies, more denial?
And if so when will you be publishing them all, verbatim, so we can further see the truth of MVV's/Paul Carey's lies and cowardice and the Heralds complicity with misinformation and deceit?
Voice of Plymouth? Never have been, never will be.
Still, at least we can rely on the proper newspapers to report on the truths of incineration and waste treatment:
*The Independent, 10/03/2013
"UK incinerator plans? They're just rubbish. As garbage-burning plants proliferate, Britain could end up with too little waste to put in them" - http://tinyurl.com/a3ddf4d
*BBC, 08/03/2013 – UK air quality failings - http://tinyurl.com/bo8og7d
When the Herald ceases to print I wonder if anyone will really miss it?”
by plympaul
Thursday, March 14 2013, 4:19PM
“so why cant this building be knocked down then to prevent this happening and in the future??”