REPORTS of a fire alarm activation and the smell of burning caused the evacuation of a city centre shop last night (October 24).
Crews from York, Acomb, Harrogate, and Wetherby were called to Parliament Street in York yesterday evening, shortly before 5.30pm, after an alarm was falsely activated in a business connected to M&S.
The alarm, combined with reports of a smell of burning, caused the whole of the M&S shop to be evacuated and crews were called from across North and West Yorkshire to check the building.
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The incident was eventually confirmed as a false alarm, believed to be caused by an alarm fault, and people were allowed to re-enter M&S at around 6.40pm that night.
A spokesperson for Marks and Spencer said: “Due to an alarm in a building adjacent to the store yesterday evening, the store was evacuated while the fire brigade attended the scene.
“No fires were found, and colleagues were safe and accounted for - when it was deemed safe to do so by the fire brigade, they re-entered the store. The store opened as usual to customers at 8am this morning.”
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