Shoppers evacuated from Telford Laura Ashley store after smoke alert
Staff and shoppers were evacuated from Telford's Laura Ashley store this afternoon after smoke was spotted coming from the ceiling.
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Two fire engines were called to the store at the Forge Retail Park.
Assistant manager Natalie Brewerton said she did not know what was going on when she saw the smoke but everyone was quickly evacuated.
Crew manager Adam Tempest said: "This is an incident involving the air conditioning.
"We have done a full evacuation and the shop will be closed for a few hours while we request an engineer to come out to have a look.
"There was smoke coming from the air con. It may be a fault which we have isolated while we wait for an engineer."
SStaff were told they could re-enter the store just after 2pm.
