Saturday 23 August 2008

Fire breaks out at Reading festival

A fire broke out at the Reading Festival today (August 23) at around 4pm (BST), when fire fighters were called to deal with the blaze.


The flaming broke kayoed in one of the festival automobile parks, with around 10 vehicles climb down, reports BBC News.


Smoke could be seen from the main festival arena.


The fire was contained by around 5pm, with no injuries reported. Festival-goer Jessie Fletcher, wHO was parked near to the fire site, told NME.COM that the fervor was started when a punter lost control of a barbequeue.


A spokesperson for Berkshire Fire and Rescue said that as substantially as local firefighters, the festival's have fire divine service team had been in attendance to help deal with the blaze.

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