Is Pools on fire --lots of black smoke coming from that area

It will be Hodcroft burning copper cable getting some money ready for new signings.

Fooking huge plume of black smoke that

It's not that near Pools, it's looks like Raby Road near Dykie school.

my friend just went past it, its on the estate where SCA packaging is, could even be them.

Ive just had a phone call saying it the old sweet 'n' savory factory place - bon bouche i think it was called,

Blatant insurance job if it is lol

Yeah it is its on the hartlepool today website with pictures

I heard sirens going mental not so long ago. Bonnebouche has been boarded up for at least a year now though - doubt it'd be insurance, might just be carnival arson.

I was at work and everyone was coming in asking if I'd seen the fire. No chance of that I was too busy.

Taken from Hpool Mail site:

"THIS is the moment when a former food factory went up in flames.
Smoke engulfed Hartlepool as smoke poured from the disused Bonne Bouche, the former Mr Chris Factory, on the Oaksway Industrial Estate, in the town.

Eight appliances and two emergency tenders were sent from fire stations at Stranton, the Headland, Middlesbrough, Stockton, Thornaby, Billingham and the Marine station, near the Transporter Bridge, at 4.16pm when the building was said to be "well alight."

Ambulance crews from Hartlepool were also called to the site.

A spokesman for the fire brigade confirmed that the building was derelict at the time of the fire and that the building was "well alight."

A spokesman for the Ambulance Service confirmed that one crew from Hartlepool had attended and that they were notified by the fire service.

Eye witness Michael Rowledge, 23, a baker, from Windermere Road, Hartlepool, said: "I worked at Bonne Bouche for a couple of weeks about a year ago on the production line. We live completely on the other side of town and saw the smoke from over there. It's unbelievable.

His sister Emma Rowledge, 19, who lives in Dalkeith Road, added: "It's shocking because it's always been here. I've never seen this many emergency people. We can only hope nobody was in it.""


LOL, "well alight". You can just imagine such a techinical term getting used. "It was well alight like, ya knaa"

Easily the funniest Mail Quote for a while.

"Always been here" really love!?

It's hardly the fooking pyramids or the Houses of Parliament is it and even they haven't ALWAYS been here

It's also fantastic that the 'eye witnesses' where on the other side of town miles away

Bastard! You just made me laugh/spit my dinner all over my computer table

from pools this view

Those pictures are going to end up as some Loids avatar, it looks like the Vic is burning down

Looks like someone has been careless with the olympic torch

Smokers are jokers

I adjusted the contrast and stuff for one of them photos and look what emerged....

they are looking for a suspect

at least the cakes will be done

I was driving up Powlet Road at the time. Smoke was awful.

that chubby bloke in pic 2 has nicked a camera before it went up in flames

Minutes????

That's some smoke for a cake factory, what was in there, napalm pasties?

Space cakes