Garden shed burnt to the ground on Whitehawk allotment

7:55am Monday 11th February 2013 in News

A garden shed was razed to the ground on an allotment.

Firefighters from Roedean station were called to the blaze on an allotment at the top of Whitehawk Road at 9.15pm last night.

The battle to put out the flames took crews nearly two hours because of the difficulty in accessing the fire and water from butts in neighbouring patches had to be used to help extinguish the fire.

Firefighters were inundated with calls about the incident which was extremely visible due to its position on the hill.

It is believed the fire was started with a discarded barbeque.

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mark by the sea says...
8:18am Mon 11 Feb 13

It's a start!

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chilliman says...
9:42am Mon 11 Feb 13

The Wolfie wrote:
Seriously?! What the f*** are the water fairies playing at?

2 hours? Obviously on retained pay...

Extremely visible but they can't get to it?! Used water butts - what happened to the 400 gallons on the pump?
Maybe they've got a hosepipe ban on at present - we haven't had much rain have we!!!!!

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egym64 says...
9:49am Mon 11 Feb 13

The water taps are turned off by the Council over winter.

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mimseycal says...
10:25am Mon 11 Feb 13

You'd have thought that the Fire Brigade would have a way of turning on taps that the Council had turned off in their parsimony.

Hats off to the Fire Brigade for carrying on regardless.

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jesss2012 says...
11:15am Mon 11 Feb 13

Oh no...thats terrible.well doen for such cutting edge reporting and am i the only one bored enough to notice that Argos ..you have just changed your weather forecast in the last half hour or so to predict snow...umm again...brilliant..w
ithout you we would have had to look out of the window, which I guess is how you managed to be so on the ball :)

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