A road sweeper caught fire on a main road in Oldham in the early hours of this morning. At around 7am on Sunday (October 10), fire crews were called to reports of an incident on Huddersfield Road.
Fire fighters from Chadderton and Mossley attended the scene where it was established that a road sweeper on a roadway had caught on fire. Read more: A new mural has appeared in Stockport and everyone is asking the same thing Fire crews quickly extinguished the fire and were in attendance for around three hours.
A resident who lived nearby said the blaze was ‘pretty scary’. Stephen Lovett said: “I just came across it at about 7am on the way to work. “There was fuel and flames across both lanes and it was popping.
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