Fire service update on injuries and road closures after huge blaze ravages factory unit in Wolverhampton

West Midlands Fire Service has confirmed whether there have been any injuries after a huge blaze erupted on Walsall Street in Wolverhampton this morning.

The fire service said it responded to the blaze shortly before 4.35am.

At the height of the incident, ten fire engines, two 4×4 brigade response vehicles and two hydraulic platforms were in attendance, crewed by firefighters from Wolverhampton, Fallings Park, Walsall, Willenhall, Bilston, Dudley, Tipton, Wednesbury, Oldbury, Bloxwich, Brierley Hill and Perry Barr.

The fire service confirmed the the blaze ravaged the entirety of a two-storey commercial factory unit.

The service said that there were no injuries or casualties.

It added: “Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus continue to work to extinguish this fire, which is surrounded. They have been supported by drone operations. A structural engineer is now on-site, and will be working with crews to assess the building.

“Due to progress at the scene, we have scaled down our resources, and have nine fire engines and two hydraulic platforms at the scene.”

There are road closures in place.

The fire service said that York Street at the junction of Wharf Street, Shakespeare Street and an area of the commercial road on Walsall street remain closed.

Houses that are located near to the fire have been evacuated.

Rachel Hamblett, a resident who lives nearby, told the Express & Star: “People have been removed from their houses as the fire was close”.

There is a considerable build up of traffic in the area, particularly at Shakespeare Street, at its junction with Horseley Fields, close to where the cordon starts.

Motorists are asked to continue to avoid the area.