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Nottingham Post
Nottingham Post
National
Cameron Mellor & Jack Thurlow

2 taken to hospital after major incident at Draycott pyrotechnics firm that supplies MoD

Nottinghamshire fire crews were called to the scene of a major incident at a pyrotechnics firm in which two people were taken hospital. Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service say they were called at 9.12pm on Friday (January 20) and in total nine crews were sent to the scene at PW Defence at Wilne Mill, in Draycott's Wilne Road.

It has now been confirmed that two patients were taken to the Queen’s Medical Centre. The air ambulance was also called to the scene following reports of a fire in a building.

A spokeswoman for East Midlands Ambulance Service said: "We were called at 21.05 hours on 20 January to Draycott in Derbyshire. The caller reported a fire in a building. We sent our Hazardous Area Response Team, four ambulances, two fast response cars and the air ambulance. Two patients were taken to the Queen’s Medical Centre, in Nottingham, by ambulance."

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