Frefighters tackle cottage blaze in Enford (From The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald)
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Frefighters tackle cottage blaze in Enford
10:21am Friday 3rd February 2012 in News By Nigel Kerton
The damage to the roof at the cottage
MORE than 30 firefighters spent six hours battling a cottage blaze in Enford last night.
Owner Eddie Shoemark, 51, and his wife Theresa fled the fire after he went upstairs to investigate strange noises and gound the loft abalze at the cottage in Newtown, Enford, at 10.30pm last night.
He said: "We heard a crackling sound so I went upstairs to investigate. When I opened the trapdoor to the loft there were flames everywhere. We just got out."
They calleed the fire service and 35 firefighters were scrambled to deal with the blaze. They took aroud three hours to get the flames uner control but stayed until first light to make sure the fire had been totally extinguished.
Mr Shoemark, an antiques dealer, was told crumbling mortar around the chimney breast had probably allowed sparks into the loft space and started the fire.
