From Fire Industry Association
A hotel on the Isle of Wight has partially collapsed after a fire broke out in the roof of the building.
Six fire crews were called to The Ryde Castle Hotel in Ryde just after 10pm on Saturday night (17th March) after guests at a wedding reception reported seeing smoke billowing from the roof.
All the guests were evacuated from the 18-bedroom property as around 50 firefighters battled to prevent the blaze from spreading to the rest of the hotel.
Chief fire officer Steve Apter revealed that crews managed to get out of the building just before it collapsed.
He said: "[Firefighters] were faced with quite a serious fire in the roof and the upper floors in the middle part of the building.
"We have had a collapsed middle part of the building so obviously very dangerous and difficult conditions for firefighters to be working in but thankfully no injuries."
Investigators are looking into the possibility that a fireworks display could have caused the blaze.
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