Police are investigating possible arson after fire crews were called out to a car fire in a car park in Kings Tamerton in the early hours of Monday morning (16 September).
Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue service received a number of calls shortly before 2am and mobilised one appliance from Camels Head station.
On arrival the crew reported that the vehicle was well alight and...
Fire crews were called to a blaze in a property on Old Park Road, Peverell in Plymouth on Sunday evening (1 September).
Three appliances from Greenbank and Crownhill were mobilised. On arrival crews discovered a fire in the ground floor kitchen of the two storey house which appeared to have been started by a kitchen appliance.
Crews used four breathing apparatus, two hose reel...
A number of families had to be evacuated last night after a fire in a block of flats in the Devonport area of Plymouth.
Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service were sent to the flats on Devonport Hill after receiving a call reporting smoke issuing from inside the three-storey block of flats. Two fire appliances from Greenbank and one fire appliance from Camels Head attended....
A horse and a number of dogs have been killed in a fire that destroyed two caravans and a small stable in the Modbury area.
A 44-year-old man from Torquay has been arrested by police on suspicion of arson.
Police and fire services were alerted at around 12.30pm on Wednesday 12 June and called to Chapel Down Lane End in the Modbury area following the report of a fire.
A fire in a restaurant in the Barbican area of the city in the early hours of this morning led to the evacuation of a four storey building.
Two fire appliances from Greenbank station, one from Plymstock and the aerial ladder platform from Crownhill attended after calls were received reporting the incident at Rockys Steakhouse and Grill on Southside Street.
Devon and Cornwall Police believe the major fire at Western Greyhound's bus depot in Newquay may have been started deliberately.
A third of the company's fleet of buses were destroyed by the fire, though no one was injured in the blaze and the company's offices and workshop were undamaged.
Two brand new vehicles which cost more than £100,000 each and four of Truro's six park-...
It wont have escaped your attention that Western Greyhound suffered a massive setback to their business in the early hours of yesterday morning with a large fire at the main Summercourt base which has destroyed 37 buses – a third of the whole fleet.
At 0105 this morning Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service received a call to a fire in a bus depot. On arrival crews found there to be 9 buses...
Devon & Cornwall Police say that they received a call at 1.17am this morning (3 May 2013) reporting that a number of buses were on fire in the Summercourt area of Cornwall.
It is thought that at least 37 buses have been deystroyed by fire, a third of bus firm Western Greyhound's fleet, which will impact on the bus service provided in mid-Cornwall. There were no persons injured as a...
An elderly man has been rescued from a property in Shortlands Road, Cullompton early this morning (Sunday 12 May) after a fire in his living room.
Fire and Rescue services report that three fire engines from Cullompton, Exeter Middlemoor and Tiverton were dispatched after a call was received from a neighbour describing alarms sounding and a smell of smoke. The neighbour stated she...
