Air conditioning unit blaze leads to Shropshire fire service callout
Two fire crews were dispatched to tackle the incident.
Firefighters were called to put out a blaze involving an air conditioning unit at an Oswestry home.
Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service sent two crews - one from Ellesmere and one from Baschurch - to the incident on Welsh Walls, at around 1.18pm yesterday - Sunday, August 2.
An update on the incident said that the homeowner had managed to put out the majority of the fire, which involved an air conditioning unit and had spread to a hedge.
The crews used a hose reel jet to make sure it was extinguished.
Writing on social media Ellesmere Fire Station said: “The Ellesmere crew have just returned home station from a property fire.
“At 13:18 the Ellesmere crew were mobilised to a ‘fire in the open’, en-route fire control informed us this was now a ‘property fire’ and Baschurch and a level two officer had now been mobilised.
“On an arrival one air conditioning unit had been involved in fire which had spread to approximately 2m of hedge, the fire had mainly been extinguished by the occupier.”
The update added that the crews used one hose reel, a thermal imaging camera, and small tools to dampen down and monitor the affected areas.
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