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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Burst Pipe Causes Confusion; Floods Shopping Centre

MARKS and Spencer at the Eden shopping centre had to be evacuated because of flooding this afternoon.
Fire crews from High Wycombe were called just after 12.30pm to the store, where it was first thought a fire had broken out.
An alarm was triggered, but it turned out to be a burst pipe.
High Wycombe Watch Manager Andy Ward said: “Somewhere in the services up in the loft above the staff canteen area, a pipe burst, quite a large pipe I would say because there was quite a lot of water which came through the ceiling and initially set the fire alarm off.
“They thought they had a fire because they thought a sprinkler had gone off.
“So when we investigated it they evacuated the store but when we investigated we found it was a burst pipe.
“There was some damage, really it was just an enormous amount of water on the floor.
“It was confined to staff only areas.”
Firefighters isolated the electricity supply.
A statement from Marks and Spencer read:
"We can confirm that a burst water pipe in the backstage area of our Eden High Wycombe store earlier today caused a nearby electrical unit to short circuit, emitting a small amount of smoke that triggered the store’s fire alarm.
"The emergency services were called and were quickly in attendance.
"As a precaution, all of our customers and staff were immediately evacuated from the store - no one was hurt.
"Engineers have been at the store this afternoon to fix the pipe and electrical unit, and the store is due to reopen at 6pm this evening.
"We apologise to our local customers for any inconvenience caused."

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