Cause of a Market Deeping fire remains unknown

The cause for a fire which damaged tonnes of recycling products last night remains unknown.

Firefighters spent nearly three hours tackling the blaze, which was reported in Market Deeping at 8pm last night (January 10).

Crews from Bourne and Market Deeping attended the commercial building fire in Whitley Way and said the blaze caused ‘severe fire damage’ to one tonne of recycling products and lighter damage to a further five tonnes.

A Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue spokesperson said: “The cause was put back as unknown. The last crews did not leave the scene until 22.45 hours.”

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The fire team used a hose reel, main jet and four sets of breathing apparatus to tackle the blaze.