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Eight crews stop fire above bakery from spreading

Danny FullbrookBedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire
News imageHertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service Fire damage to the upper floor and roof of a terraced property. Several roof tiles are missing, exposing charred roof beams, with a window completely removed. The word SIMMONS is printed on hoarding.Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service

Eight fire crews tackled a blaze above a town centre bakery while preventing it from spreading to neighbouring buildings.

Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service evacuated residents from nearby properties after being called to Simmons bakery on High Road, Broxbourne, at about 00:01 BST.

Crews from Ware, Cheshunt, Hertford, Welwyn Garden City, Stevenage and Potters Bar attended the incident.

An aerial ladder platform was used to help extinguish the fire after it spread to the roof space above the building.

News imageHertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service A view of the fire from a drone flying high above. The colour is black and white.Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service
Firefighters used drones to identify hotspots during the blaze

Firefighters also deployed a drone to identify hotspots and to check whether the blaze had spread to neighbouring properties.

On their website, Simmons, the Hertfordshire-based bakery chain, said its Broxbourne store would "closed for refurbishment" between 2 and 8 July.

The company was approached for comment.

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