YEOVIL NEWS: Investigations into fire at scooter sales room and taxi building

INVESTIGATIONS are underway following a fire in the early hours of this morning (Tuesday, August 12, 2014) at a taxi-rank building and scooter sales room in Yeovil.

The alarm was raised at just before 2.30am to the fire at the two-storey property in Central Road opposite the Yeovil Bus Station.

Two fire engines were initially mobilised and officers quickly established the blaze to be on the ground floor.

Another fire engines was requested to attend which was sent from Wincanton, while a fourth was later mobilised from Sherborne to provide extra resources.

A spokesman for the Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service told the Yeovil Press that an ambulance attended as a precaution with officers uncertain as to whether anyone was in the building.

“Crews confirmed that all persons were accounted for,” said the spokesman. “A fire investigation officer will be attending the incident to establish the cause of the fire.”

UPDATE - 11.45am (Tuesday, August 12, 2014): South West Scooters, who are situated on the ground floor of the building, has not received any damage in the fire.

But the fire has gutted the upstairs of the building which housed Yeovil Tailors owned by Lou Demaris.

Investigations are currently ongoing into the cause of the fire which was initially said to have started on the ground floor, but has since proved wrong.

Nobody was hurt in the incident, although an ambulance attended as a precaution.

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