Roof collapses as fire rips through building
Thursday 4th August 2011, 11:29AM BST.
Three crews were called to battle the fire after it broke out in a detached building in Rhydycroesau, near Oswestry.
The alarm was raised just before 8.45am and crews from Oswestry, Chirk and Ellesmere were sent to deal with the incident.
The building is understood to be a 10- metre by four-metre annexe of the Pen y Dyffrn Hotel.
Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service today said there were no reports of anybody being trapped in the building, or of anyone being injured in the fire.
But they said that about 90 per cent of the roof of the single-storey brick building had been damaged.
Firefighters, wearing breathing gear, used two hose reel jets to battle the fire.
The crews also used a covering jet and thermal imaging camera
The fire was brought under control just after 10am.
Neither West Mercia Police not West Midlands Ambulance Service received callouts to the fire.
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