Baldock Tesco fire sees supermarket evacuated

Crews used an aerial platform to bring the fire under control

Staff had to be evacuated from a Tesco supermarket after a fire broke.

The blaze started at the Tesco Extra store in Baldock, Hertfordshire, at about 18:40 GMT on Sunday.

Six crews and an aerial platform were used after the fire started in a generator room on the second floor, the Herts Fire and Rescue Service said.

Everyone got out safely and the fire was put out shortly before 22:00. The store was closed to customers at the time it broke out.

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A spokesman from Tesco said the shop on the town's High Street had reopened.

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