UPDATE: Fork lift fire at Harwich International Port (From Essex County Standard)
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UPDATE: Fork lift on fire at Harwich International Port in Parkeston Quay
10:12am Wednesday 19th September 2012 in News By Helen Barnett
Picture by Neil Howell. Send in your photos to hms.news@nqe.com
FIREFIGHTERS have extinguished a fire at a container port.
A large fork lift which picks up containers set alight at around 9.45am today. The entire piece of equipment was in flames.
Two fire engines from Dovercourt went to the scene and, wearing breathing apparatus, used two hose reels and foam to extinguish the blaze.
No one was injured and fire crew extinguished the fire in around 25 minutes.
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