A suspected arson attack on a caravan in Buckinghamshire, almost had fatal consequences this week when the flames began to spread to a nearby block of flats.
Firefighters were called to George Road in the village of Stokenchurch at around 11pm on Tuesday (June 26th) and found the caravan engulfed in flames when they arrived, the Bucks Free Press reported.
Dousing the blaze with two hoses, the crew quickly put out the fire but said that the consequences could have been much worse had they not been called so soon after the fire was started.
“It was next to a block of five flats and some of the windows on the top floor had cracked due to the heat,” crew manager Luke Brown told the newspaper.
“If someone hadn’t noticed it and called us it would have spread to the roof of the flats within about five minutes.”
Mr Brown added that the caravan was standing on a former building site adjacent to the block of five flats and he believes that arsonists were responsible for the blaze.
Luckily nobody was hurt in the incident, but after extinguishing the flames the High Wycombe and Stokenchurch fire crews then visited the flats to ensure that all residents’ homes were fitted with smoke alarms.
