Stove causes another fire

FIRE fighters suspect that its stove caused  a narrowboat to go up in flames early yesterday (Wednesday) morning, destroying everything.

Shaun Gibb's, was in The Heart of England pub at Weedon on the Grand Union Canal at around 1am when he was called out to see his boat, on which he had lived for 10 years, on fire, Alan Tilbury reveals. (Picture by Ian Gittins.)

Devastated

He was devastated at the loss, for not only is his boat destroyed leaving him homeless, but its entire contents. He told he has insurance for the boat but not for its contents, that included £5,000 worth of fishing gear, telling that he cannot understand how it happened.

Though living on the 57ft narrowboat, he was not on it at the time, and though he ran out of the pub towards the flames, the fire people would not allow him near as there were gas bottles at view on the rear deck that could explode.

Stoked-up

Two fire crews from Daventry and one from Long Buckby attended the fire, together with the Red Cross fire victim support unit, with a spokesman stating the fire was believed to have originated in the boat's wood burning stove, that was stoked-up.