Firefighters attend chip shop blaze on Southsea seafront

Firefighters attended the seafront area

A fire broke out at a chip shop in Southsea on Friday evening.

Southsea firefighters were called to reports of a fire at the chippy on Clarence Esplanade shortly after 7pm.

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The fire involved a deep fat fryer at the fast food outlet in the popular seafront space.

A fire service spokesperson said: “Wearing breathing apparatus, crews extinguished a blaze involving a deep-fat fryer. A stop message was received around 7.45pm.”

No injuries were reported.

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