Fire breaks out at Rolls Royce factory in Sunderland
Crews from Sunderland Central and Marley Park stations were called out to the Pallion factory following reports of a blaze.
It has now been extinguished by officers who remained on site for a couple of hours to remove water at the premises.
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Hide AdThe blaze started in an office due to an electrical fault shortly after 9am.
Smoke spread to a number of other offices.
Watch manager Les Thompson, of Sunderland Central, said: “Thankfully the fire didn’t spread because it was contained by the sprinkler system, but there has been a lot of water damage.
“Most of the work from us was as part of a salvage operation.
“No-one was in the office because it’s the weekend and the two members of personnel who were on the shop floor had evacuated before we got there.”