Arson drama at flats
Date published: 07 November 2014
FIREFIGHTERS were called to a blaze in Werneth in the early hours of this morning after a suspected arson attack on a ground-floor flat.
Crews from Hollins and Oldham went to Chester Street, where bins in a storage area next to the two-storey maisonette flats had been set on fire after midnight.
Nobody was injured but substantial damage was caused to the electricity box for both flats.
Two residents from the ground-floor flat escaped, as did three more from the flat above
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