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Molineux Catches FIRE After 2am Blaze Broke out Inside a Bar Area at Wolves’ Famous Stadium

Posted on the 23 January 2022 by Maxiel

Molineux catches FIRE after 2am blaze broke out inside a bar space at Wolves' well-known stadium with smoke pouring out...as 20 firefighters arrive on the scene earlier than placing out the flames

  • The hearth on the Molineux Stadium lasted for round two hours on Sunday morning
  • Nobody was injured within the fireplace which broke out within the Sir Jack Hayward stand
  • 4 fireplace crews arrived simply two minutes after being referred to as out to the scene
  • Fireplace damages hospitality suite and quite a lot of areas within the Billy Wright Stand

Wolves ' well-known Molineux Stadium caught fireplace within the early hours of Sunday morning.

It was ablaze for round two hours from 1:40am as 20 firefighters efficiently battled to comprise the flames, in line with footage from @wolfpackwwfc.

Thankfully nobody was injured within the fireplace which broke out in an empty bar space of the Sir Jack Hayward stand.

With the stadium's alarm blaring, footage confirmed emergency providers being referred to as out to sort out the blaze which lasted for round two hours.

West Midlands Fireplace Service issued an announcement on the incident, a spokesman stated: 'At 1.56am this morning we responded to a hearth at The Molineux Stadium, Wolverhampton.

'The primary of 4 fireplace crews and 20 firefighters arrived two minutes after being mobilised.

'We contained the hearth to a convention suite bar space. It was out by 3.40am.'

Andy Howard, watch supervisor at Wolverhampton fireplace station, stated: 'There's been a hearth within the bar space. It was contained to the room of origin however the bar space and a part of the workspace was concerned in fireplace.

'In any other case it was simply smoke injury to the remainder of the ground.'

Law enforcement officials have been additionally despatched to the scene however paramedics weren't wanted. Firefighters left the scene at 6.45am, earlier than coming again to Molineux later within the morning to test on the state of affairs and assess the injury.

Wolves' services, security and safety director, Steve Sutton, stated: 'Thanks to the short and glorious work of West Midlands Fireplace Service for his or her immediate help in tackling the flames and getting the hearth beneath management as rapidly as attainable.

'It can take some days to completely assess the injury that has been induced, nevertheless it's fairly important and can take a while to restore.

'Any supporter packages affected for the subsequent sport will likely be communicated by the related departments over the approaching days.

'A very powerful factor in fact, is that nobody was current on the time, other than our 24-hour safety staff, and nobody was harm.

'We apologise to residents within the space for the very loud alarms that went off late into the evening, however hope they perceive their necessity at such a crucial time.'

Wolves did play on Saturday however luckily their match was away at Brentford, the place Bruno Lage's aspect received 2-1.

They now sit eighth within the Premier League - simply 4 factors off the highest 4.


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