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Fire at Peacocks, Oswestry
Friday 3rd September 2010, 11:04AM BST.
Staff at an Oswestry fashion store have had to throw away hundreds of new clothes after a fire broke out behind the premises.
The fire alarms at Peacocks, on Cross Street, were set off by the fire which started in the middle of the night on Saturday.
Damage was caused to roller shutters and the roof of the store after the contents of a metal bin were set alight between 11pm and 11.20pm.
Although the fire did not reach the shop floor, store manager Wendy Ellis said there had still been a cost because of the smoke.
She said: “I got a call in the night when the smoke alarms went off and smoke had got into the back area.
“There are five bins that had caught fire but the collection lorry had come a few days before so they were not full.”
She added: “The fire didn’t go onto the shop floor but 500 garments had to be destroyed because of smoke damage.
“If you think each garment has got to be about £10 to £15 each that is rather a lot of money.
“If the fire had got into the building who knows what could have happened. It is not worth thinking about it.
“We are lucky it didn’t get into the building.
“We have been here four years and noting like this has ever happened before.”
Police are treating the incident as arson.
The fire was dealt with by Shropshire Fire and Rescue.
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