SCARBOROUGH FIRE: Alex Grant from Crofts Chocolates speaks about Newborough shop blaze
Firefighters were called to attend a store room fire at Little Martin Crafts, on Newborough, on Tuesday night.
The fire was located in the ground floor souvenir shop which has flats above. Crews gained entry into the shop and extinguished the fire which was in a rear store room.
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Hide AdAlex Grant, of Crofts Chocolates, next door to Little Martin Crafts, said: “My son texted me at about half past seven saying there were four fire engines outside our shop.
“We've had that a few times in the past with false alarms so I just ignored it.
“Then about half an hour later my wife told me about a Facebook post about a fire, and someone commented that the chocolate shop door has had to be broken into!
“That's when I rushed down and I was there until about 11pm waiting for the door to be boarded up.
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Hide Ad“The fire was in the shop next door but they had to break our door open to let smoke out.
“ No-one was hurt but all of our stock needs remaking."
“To be honest the shop isn’t in bad condition, there’s just smoke damage for us.
“We are going to have to empty it and redecorate and clean everything.
“It’s going to be a pain. We’ll be closed for a few weeks possibly and have to wait for new chocolates to be made.”
Mr Grant said that it’s early days, but if he is able to get new stock ready then he may be able to set up a temporary shop in his new premises on St John’s Road.