UPDATE: Fork lift on fire at Harwich International Port in Parkeston Quay

Picture by Neil Howell. Send in your photos to hms.news@nqe.com Picture by Neil Howell. Send in your photos to hms.news@nqe.com

FIREFIGHTERS have extinguished a fire at a container port.

A large fork lift which picks up containers set alight at around 9.45am today. The entire piece of equipment was in flames.

Two fire engines from Dovercourt went to the scene and, wearing breathing apparatus, used two hose reels and foam to extinguish the blaze.

No one was injured and fire crew extinguished the fire in around 25 minutes.

SEND US YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE FIRE TO hms.news@nqe.com

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