Crews tackle warehouse blaze in early hours

Orange flames coming off a warehouse on fire in Stour Road in Harwich. A plume of smoke is coming from the building and spreading into the sky.

Crews have been working through the early hours of the morning to tackle a blaze at a warehouse.

Essex County Fire & Rescue Service was called to a warehouse on Stour Road in Harwich at about 03:36 BST and about 35 firefighters had been sent.

As a lot of smoke was coming from the building, people living nearby were being advised to keep their windows and doors shut.

On social media, Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service said it had been receiving multiple calls from concerned people in the Ipswich and Felixstowe area, on the other side of the River Orwell estuary, but it reiterated the smoke was coming from Harwich.

A warehouse on fire in Harwich. The fire service responded to the incident in the early hours of the morning therefore the picture has been taken in the dark, however, the warehouse is lit up by flames. A plume of smoke coming off the building is stretching into the sky. Where there are flames on the right hand side of the building in the picture, the roof has started to warp.

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