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28.03.2023 - 13:45 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Residents were evacuated from flats inside a former mill in Ashton-under-Lyne in the early hours after a fire broke out.
The blaze broke out in a flat on the fourth floor of the Good Hope Mill on Bentinck Street at around 3am this morning (Tuesday). Five fire engines rushed to the scene.
A 'partial evacuation' of the building was carried out by police and firefighters before the blaze was extinguished. Fire crews were on the scene for more than nine hours.
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Pictures taken at the scene this morning showed a cordon in place around the front of the converted mill. A flat on the fourth floor appeared to have charred windows that had been left wide open.
A Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said:"Shortly before 3am on Tuesday 28 March, firefighters were called out to a fire in a four-storey building on Bentinck Street, Ashton-under-Lyne.
"Five fire engines from Ashton-under-Lyne, Hyde, Stalybridge and Hollins along with the hydraulic platform from Oldham attended the scene where a fire had in a flat on the fourth floor.
"Firefighters used one hose reel, two jets, four breathing apparatus, breaking in gear, lighting, a gas detector and a hydraulic platform to extinguish the fire. A partial evacuation of flats in the building was carried out by fire crews and police.
"Firefighters were in attendance for approximately nine hours and forty minutes and left after making the scene safe.”
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