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Crews called to deal with blaze at brewery maltings

FIREFIGHTERS were called to tackle a blaze at a Burton brewery.

Fire and rescue teams went to Molson Coors’ Shobnall Maltings, in Wellington Road, at 8.30am yesterday in response to reports of a fire in a building.

It is thought the fire started when a graining machine overheated, causing it to ignite.

Molson Coors described the incident as ‘nothing serious’ and said that no-one was injured in the blaze.

A spokesman for the brewing giant said that it was‘business as usual’ at the site, despite the incident.

“The small fire was contained within the building and it was brought under control very quickly,” she said.

“Two Molson Coors employees spotted it and they dealt with it straight away.

“It is business as usual for us and no production has been affected.” Despite passing the fire off as a minor incident, three fire crews from Burton and Tutbury were called out to the brewery.

They used breathing apparatus, one hose-reel jet and an aerial ladder to tackle the flames.

Media officer for Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service, Sarah Collis, said: “The firefighters responded to an automatic fire alarm.

“On arrival, smoke was visible from the machine so a couple of firefighters went in.

“There weren’t actually visible flames, it was just quite smoky, so it took a while for them to check it all over “That was the reason we had so many personnel attending, because we had to ensure it was safe.

“It was a case of checking various ducts around the site as well.”

Area commander for East Staffordshire, Brian Griffiths said: “These sorts of jobs are always like this — often it takes a lot of firefighters just to make sure that everything is safe.”

Assistant area commander Pete Jones added: “The fire was caused by to a build up of dust on a motor that was used to operate the machinery at the maltings tower. The motor overheated causing the dust to ignite.”

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