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FOUR Cheshire fire crews were called out on Christmas Eve to a factory blaze in Ellesmere Port.
It is thought a bearing caught fire in a paper-making machine and sparked the fire.
One engine from Ellesmere Port and two from Chester were called to Bridgewater Paper on North Road just after 11.45pm. An aerial appliance also went to the riverfront factory.
Sprinklers at the plant, which recycles newsprint, extinguished the fire before the crews arrived.
A worker from the company told the Daily Post: “As far as I’m aware, a bearing caught fire in one of the machines. It wasn’t anything major.”
Yesterday a spokesman for Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service said fire officers were not investigating the cause.
He added: “It involved a paper machine, but the sprinkler system put the fire out.”
