St Ives restaurant closed for rest of day after fire
Crews from across Cornwall were called to reports of smoke, but luckily no-one was injured
Last updated 11th Aug 2022
Crews from across Cornwall have battled a fire in St Ives, which has forced a local restaurant to close.
Posting on Facebook, the Mermaid Seafood Restaurant confirmed the blaze broke out in the store room area and said it would be shut today (Thursday 11 August) and tonight.
Firefighters were called to Back Road East in the early hours of Thursday morning, to reports of smoke inside a property.
Crews from the town, Hayle, Penzance and Truro were initially scrambled, before back-up was requested from Tolvaddon, St Just and Wadebridge.
The restaurant has confirmed no-one was injured and thanked Cornwall Fire & Rescue for its "swift actions" to stop the fire "being so much worse".
Cornwall Fire & Rescue Service said: "At 00:46 Critical Control received several calls to smoke within a property.
"Two fire appliances from St Ives, one from Hayle and one from Penzance Community Fire Station, along with the Aerial Ladder Platform from Truro and two wholetime officers, were mobilised to the incident.
"On arrival an assistance message was made, make pumps six and further appliances and support vehicles were sent from Tolvaddon, Wadebridge and St Just.
"A fire was found in a ground floor garage and firefighters wearing six breathing apparatus and using a hosereel jet, a covering jet and safety jet extinguished the fire".