HUGE Explosion in Shrewsbury

[RegMolehusband]

THAT was scary - anybody else local hear it? All the fire engines heading through town now.

[Puggit]

PH, first to the news...

(and this thread will soon be moved off to die in a sub-forum...)

[RegMolehusband]

Radio Shropshire doesn't know what it is yet they say

[plover]

RegMolehusband said:

Radio Shropshire doesn't know what it is yet they say

Looks like a fire if you look at this webcam

[chr15b]

plover said:

RegMolehusband said:

Radio Shropshire doesn't know what it is yet they say

Looks like a fire if you look at this webcam

good find!

[RegMolehusband]

Good spot Plover - I'm 300 yards as the crow flies from there - not walking over there just yet though. Yet more fire engines and now the air amubulance or police helicopter.

Edited by RegMolehusband on Sunday 3rd January 11:45

[CatherineJ]

If you look at some of the other webcams on the link there seams to be a few police and ambulances floating around too.

[Famous Graham]

CatherineJ said:

If you look at some of the other webcams on the link there seams to be a few police and ambulances floating around too.

It's flooded again?

[RegMolehusband]

Air amubluance has just landed in Frankwell car park behind me

[dfen5]

Doesn't look good..

[Ow]

http://www.shropshire.gov.uk/webcams.nsf/open/96A5...

[RegMolehusband]

THe webcam shows a lot of rubble on the road at the end of the bridge in front of the police car. It sounded like a gas explosion to me. There would have been quite a few people walking there at this time of day,

Edited by RegMolehusband on Sunday 3rd January 11:57

[CatherineJ]

Can you tell from the webcam reg where it is?

[shakotan]

CatherineJ said:

Can you tell from the webcam reg where it is?

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&a...

Appears to be on the East side of Bridge Street, just further towards the river than "Cafe Saffron"

Edited by shakotan on Sunday 3rd January 12:06

[RegMolehusband]

TWO air ambulances now! The other must have come from Staffordshire

[escargot]

Nothing on the BBC site yet.

[Rach*]

RegMolehusband said:

TWO air ambulances now! The other must have come from Staffordshire

Go have a nosey and report back

[RegMolehusband]

Going for a walk

[CatherineJ]

RegMolehusband said:

TWO air ambulances now! The other must have come from Staffordshire

Very sad. There has also been a lot of land ambulance activity on the webcams too.

[Penny-lope]

What is that area mainly.....retail or residential?