Fire engines are still in attendance at a farm building fire in Samlesbury, Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service has said.
Shortly before 6:00a.m this morning, 10 fire engines from Preston, Bamber Bridge, Blackburn, Leyland, Chorley, Darwen, Nelson and Penwortham and the aerial ladder platforms from Preston and Hyndburn along with other specialist units attended a commercial building fire at Church House Farm on Preston New Road, Samlesbury.
An update at 11:00a.m said the incident had been reduced to six fire engines and aerial ladder platforms with crews expected to remain in attendance throughout the day monotoring and extinguishing the fire.
An update shortly before 1:00p.m from the Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service said four fire engines were still in attendance at the scene.
The rescue service said a drone team is also attending this incident, and urged to public to not fly drones over the scene as they will “obstruct emegency operations”.
Road closures remain in place and the rescue service said it is working closely with partner agencies to minimise the disruption to the local community.
Building fire
Group manager Liam Wilson at Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service said: “Earlier on this morning, we attended an incident at Chapel, Church House Farm in Samlesbury.
“Initial attendance was 10 pumping appliances and then two aerial ladder platforms and a high volume pump.
“We have worked continuously for the duration of this morning alongside partners to firstly extinguish the fire, to control and extinguish the fire and then, secondly, to obiously mitigate the impacts on the local community.”
Wilson said the rescue service is aware of the road closure affecting the A59, where it has a water supply down at the Brockholes nature reserve.
“What we are looking to do is, alongside our partners, to minmise that desriptuion,” he said.
“We’re working continuously and we’re working hard in order to extinguish the fire and mitigate the effects.”
Wilson thanked those in the local community for their support and patience in dealing with the incident.
“We are envisioning that firefighting operations will continue for effectively the rest of today at the minimum and then we’ll be looking at further reducing the appliances and resources that are in attendance,” he said.
