A MAJOR FIRE AT A FORMER CEMENT PLANT IN SUSSEX, ENGLAND, brought 80 firefighters from across the county to fight the blaze.  Seven of them were re-routed to the hospital when two engines collided while responding to the alarm.

The Mid Sussex Times reports:

TWO fire engines collided en route to the old Shoreham cement works.  One was left with a shattered windscreen and what a fire service spokesman called “significant damage”.

Both fire engines, from Worthing fire station’s Green Watch, had been called to the cement works, on the A283 Steyning Road, Upper Beeding, at 9.15pm last night (Monday, April 7).

Seven of the nine crew members were taken to Worthing Hospital for precautionary checks for whiplash injuries. All have now been discharged.

The fire kept the FD busy throughout the night and is believed to have started in an old workshop currently being used as an auto repair and spray painting facility.

The Shoreham Herald has a brief report on the FIRE.

(Firegeezer notes:  Since the suspected fire-setters are probably covered with cement dust, police are looking for two hardened criminals.)

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