Hotel evacuated as firefighters battle blaze

FIREFIGHTERS battled a blaze for almost 12 hours after flames ripped through the roof space of a Rotherham hotel.
By Tom Sharpe
Published 29th Nov 2010, 10:44 BST
Updated 9th Jan 2017, 12:36 BST

Crews were called to the Station Hotel, on Station Road, Masbrough, at around 3.45am on Saturday morning after a blaze which started on the building’s first floor spread into its roof space.

The occupants of 20 rooms at the hotel were safely evacuated from the building as firefighters fought the blaze using five appliances and an aerial ladder platform.

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The crews were eventually able to leave the scene at around 3.30pm.

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A spokesman for South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue said: “It is believed to have been started deliberately. No one is believed to have been injured in the fire.”

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