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Fire crews scramble to car fire on the M54

Two fire engines tackled a car fire on the M54 on Friday.

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When the crews from Telford Central arrived on the scene just after 10.54am they found one saloon vehicle fully involved in fire on the eastbound hard shoulder near Codsall/Albrighton.

A Shropshire Fire & Rescue spokesperson said an operations officer was also in attendance as were the Highways Agency for traffic management.

The spokesperson confirmed that no-one was injured in the incident which was dealt with by firefighters who donned breathing apparatus and used a hosereel water jet.

It took the crews about 30 minutes to deal with the incident.

A spokesperson for National Highways said: "We were alerted at 11.15am to the incident by the fire service. The vehicle was on the hard shoulder and we closed off lane one.

"Once the first was out we established there was no infrastructure damage, the vehicle was recovered and the road fully open again by 12.15pm."

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