Following a 999 call at 6.46 am, six crews were called in to attend a fire that took place at Regent House on Bath Avenue in Wolverhampton, accompanied by five fire engines and a dedicated brigade response vehicle.
The large-scale blaze occurred not long before 7pm on Friday, July 24, inside the office block situated close to Molineux Stadium, home to Wolverhampton Wanderers’ Football Club. As the fire peaked, 28 individual firefighters fought to get it under control.
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A tweet from West Midlands Fire Service described how crews from different areas, including Wolverhampton, Bilston, Fallings Park, West Bromwich, and Tettenhall, joined forces to find the seat of the blaze and battle the basement fire in the four-storey building.
A spokesperson for the service stated that crews equipped with breathing apparatus used a hose reel jet and multiple CO2 extinguishers to quell the fire over two hours, with firefighters leaving the scene by 9pm.
Investigation by fire crews uncovered that the commercial block incident was caused by an electrical fault.
