Date: 15th July, 2024
Time: 6.57am
Description: Bournemouth - crews from Springbourne, Redhill Park, Christchurch and Westbourne - including the aerial ladder platform - attended reports of alarms sounding and a smell of smoke at a high-rise building on Oxford Road. On arrival, firefighters investigated and found that there had been a small fire involving a mobile phone. The fire was out and crews ventilated the area. General advice regarding mobile phone safety can be found here: https://www.dwfire.org.uk/safety/safety-at-home/causes-of-fires/mobile-phone-chargers/
Location: Oxford Road, Bournemouth, UK
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