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21/08/2007
Human Remains Found At Hotel Fire Site
Police and fire investigation teams searching the debris of a Cornish hotel destroyed by fire have found human remains.
The blaze tore through the Penhallow Hotel in Newquay just after midnight on Saturday.
A 43-year-old man died in the blaze. It is believed that the man, who has not yet been named, died after jumping from the second or third floor of the hotel when the fire broke out.
More than 80 people were safely evacuated from the building. Four people were taken to hospital following the fire. Three are in a stable condition, but one's person condition is described as stable but critical. Two people, believed to be aged in their 70s and 80s, are still missing and police believe that both of them died in the fire.
The fire is being treated as a "major crime", police have revealed.
Scaffolding with screens have been erected around the shell of the hotel in order for specialist teams to search for the missing persons and clues to the cause of the fire.
The search of the rubble is due to take several days.
The Fire Brigades Union has claimed that the cuts to the service had meant that there were not enough firefighters available to crew a second pump to tackle the fire.
It also emerged after the blaze that an aerial platform had to be brought from Plymouth - 50 miles away - to help tackle the fire.
(KMcA/SP)
The blaze tore through the Penhallow Hotel in Newquay just after midnight on Saturday.
A 43-year-old man died in the blaze. It is believed that the man, who has not yet been named, died after jumping from the second or third floor of the hotel when the fire broke out.
More than 80 people were safely evacuated from the building. Four people were taken to hospital following the fire. Three are in a stable condition, but one's person condition is described as stable but critical. Two people, believed to be aged in their 70s and 80s, are still missing and police believe that both of them died in the fire.
The fire is being treated as a "major crime", police have revealed.
Scaffolding with screens have been erected around the shell of the hotel in order for specialist teams to search for the missing persons and clues to the cause of the fire.
The search of the rubble is due to take several days.
The Fire Brigades Union has claimed that the cuts to the service had meant that there were not enough firefighters available to crew a second pump to tackle the fire.
It also emerged after the blaze that an aerial platform had to be brought from Plymouth - 50 miles away - to help tackle the fire.
(KMcA/SP)
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