WALTHAMSTOW: Slurpy machine goes up in smoke (From East London and West Essex Guardian Series)

WALTHAMSTOW: Slurpy machine goes up in smoke

9:38am Tuesday 17th November 2009 in

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FIRE crews were called to a Walthamstow shop after a slurpy machine caught fire.

The incident happened at about 6.30pm last night in Kenilworth Avenue, near Forest Road, at Cut Price Off Licence.

Eyewitness Rupert Hitchcox, 37, a photographer, of Wood Street, said: "The police and fire crew were the first on the scene.

"It was more a case of heavy smoke rather than damage to the shop itself."

A fireman at the scene confirmed the slurpy machine as the cause.

It is believed no one was injured during the incident and no major damage was caused to the shop.