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Horror as building collapses
Monday 4th January 2010, 6:00PM GMT.
The area around the explosion scene was showered with debris
Vickie Warren, 29, of Castlefields, was shopping with her husband Tom in WH Smith in the town centre at the time of the explosion.
She said: “We heard the blast so we walked down Pride Hill and we could see black smoke. We could see smoke coming from a building, really thick, going up into the sky and there was rubble all over the road outside the Morris building. Among the rubble there was fire on the road.
“The police were there in minutes and then the air ambulance arrived.”
Walkers in Shrewsbury’s Quarry heard the blast and stood still along the riverside as smoke billowed into the air from behind the spire of St Chad’s. Many people began running towards the church to see where the smoke was coming from. Others immediately rang family members who lived in the town centre.
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Id like to say that the people that helped like Ollie Parry aand Tim Phillips are amazing. I know the girls that they helped and from all of their friends I say thank you for being such wonderful people.
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My wife and daughter knew Sam through her job – she is a lovely girl. We hope she makes a quick recovery and wish her all the very best, along with her other friends involved.
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