Crew tackles fire in beer garden of York hotel

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Furniture caught fire in a York hotel last night (Wednesday).

Firefighters were called The Churchill Hotel us Bootham to 9:15 p.m.

The fire was in the pub garden.

A spokesman for North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service said: “Crews from Acomb responded to reports of garden furniture on fire at a business premises.

“This was caused by an electrical fault in a patio heater.

“Crews extinguished the fire using a hose reel jet and staff also attended first using foam and carbon dioxide extinguishers.”

No one was injured.

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