‘Significant damage’ was caused by the blaze
A fire broke out at Wolverhampton Wanderers’ Molineux stadium in the early hours of Sunday morning, causing ‘significant damage’, the club have said.
🚨 BREAKING: The fire that has broken out inside Molineux seems to be getting worse, Emergency services are on scene 🙏🐺😭#WWFC #TheWolfpack #Wolves pic.twitter.com/B1DSfIdq7M
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The club have confirmed that nobody was hurt by the fire after a member of the security team phoned the fire service at 1:56am on Sunday morning.
West Midlands Fire Service were tackling the blaze within five minutes. Firefighters from five different crews eventually left the ground at 6:45am, before returning later to assess the damage. It is reported that the fire was burning for approximately two hours.
🚨BREAKING: it looks like the fire has now been put out, police have reopened the road, we don't know to what extent the damage is or the cause of the fire. The stadiums alarms stared blazing at around 1.40am so the fire was burning for around 2 hours #WWFC #TheWolfpack #Wolves pic.twitter.com/bipf4rkAIj
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Andy Howard, watch manager at Wolverhampton fire station, said: “There’s been a fire in the bar area. It was contained to the room of origin but the bar area and part of the workspace was involved in fire. Otherwise it was just smoke damage to the rest of the floor.”
Wolves’ facilities, safety and security director, Steve Sutton, said: “Thank you to the quick and excellent work of West Midlands Fire Service for their prompt assistance in tackling the flames and getting the fire under control as quickly as possible.
“It will take some days to fully assess the damage that has been caused, however it is quite significant and will take some time to repair. Any supporter packages affected for the next game will be communicated by the relevant departments over the coming days.
“The most important thing of course, is that no one was present at the time, apart from our 24-hour security team, and no one was hurt.
“We apologise to residents in the area for the very loud alarms that went off late into the night, but hope they understand their necessity at such a critical time.”
