“When we arrived, beat the flames were already through the roof,” says gen Rik Vandekerckhove of the hulpverleningszone Westhoek. “We managed to get the fire to reduce to the affected building, but at a given moment on the roof down through the damage the flames caused.”
From the chip shop with rear diner remains as good as nothing. The entire property is completely destroyed by the flames. At the time of the fire, nobody was present in the shop, no one was injured. “In addition to the shop is a vacant house and a painting business”, says major Vandekerckhove.