Time Incident Posted: 12:46
Incident Date: 28/05/2020
Incident Location: Mira Drive, Higham on the Hill
Incident Number: 8763
Incident Type: Fire Industrial
Initial Emergency Call Received: 11:25
Fire and Rescue Service Vehicles Attended: 2 Fire Engines from Nuneaton, 1 Fire Engine from Hinckley
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Time Incident Closed:
Damage: Light smoke logging to industrial unit
Believed Cause: Accidental due to fault in charging batteries
Initial Information: Call received to a single storey industrial premises. Lithium batteries that had been left on charge and was believed to have caught fire inside the building. All batteries involved in fire confirmed to be extinct. Batteries smothered in copious amounts of sand and left in situ in the building. On site staff using digger to remove batteries and sand from building.
Updated Incident Information: 2 Breathing Apparatus and 1 Hose Reel Jet used for investigation.
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