A car was 'deliberately' set ablaze in the Southmead area of Bristol last night, according to the fire service. Avon Fire and Rescue service was called to Pen Park Road at around midnight on Thursday, August 4 after a car fire was reported.
According to a statement on their website, the car was "well alight" when crews from Southmead and Patchway arrived. The cause of the fire "is thought to be deliberate", according to the statement.
And it adds that a firefighter wearing breathing apparatus used a high pressure hose reel to extinguish the blaze. The statement does not clarify where the car was found on Pen Park Road, which stretches from the double roundabout connecting it Southmead Road all the way to Knole Lane in Brentry.
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