More than £120,000 worth of motor homes have gone up in flames.
Owners of the Stafford Motor Home company near Wolverhampton are heartbroken after seeing around nine of their luxury vehicles and cars gutted in the late-night fire.
Peter Morrison has run the company off the A5 road at Ivetsey Bank, near Weston Park, for the past six years.
He was in France when he received the call today telling him his business had gone up in smoke at around midnight. The fire was today being treated as suspicious.
Mr Morrison, aged 46, is in France to watch England take on Samoa in the Rugby World Cup. He set up the business when he left the RAF after 24 years of service.
“I’m in France at the moment but I really don’t feel up to it now. I’m just gutted,” he said today. “I took over the company six years ago using my gratuity money from the air force.
“We have put so much hard work into it to build it up to what it is today and then this happens.
“When I got the call I just couldn’t believe it. I haven’t been told exactly what’s happened but I know there’s nine of the vehicles involved.
“My wife Jacqueline is at the site at the moment and I am flying back tomorrow.
“Investigations are going on now. Hopefully we will be able to get it back to how it was again with the insurance. If there’s any problems with that I don’t know what we’d do.
“It is heartbreaking.”
Firefighters from Stafford and Cannock went to the scene just before midnight and spent around two hours tackling the flames.
Sales manager John Short said around £120,000 worth of stock had been damaged in the blaze. He added: “It is going to hit us hard. It is only a small company and one or two of the vans had already been sold.”
By Victoria Nash and Daniel Wainwright
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