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UK: Fire breaks out at house suspected as a cannabis factory

Sian Davies

Basingstoke Gazette

Wednesday 15 Nov 2006

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A FIRE swept through a house in Southampton - just minutes before it was
due to be raided by police.

Officers from Southampton's drug investigation and intelligence team
were on their way to the property as part of one of three simultaneous
cannabis raids being carried homes suspected of being used to cultivate
the class c drug.

But officers were informed that a fire had broken out in the upstairs of
the terraced house at Broadlands Road in Portswood and firefighters were
already at the property tackling the blaze.

The fire swept through the upstairs rooms of the home and completely
destroyed the staircase. Firefighters used breathing apparatus to
extinguish the fire that started just after 7am today.

An initial search of the property did find the remains of cannabis
plants and growing equipment but police officers had to wait for a fire
investigation to be conducted before starting their own inquiries.

Meanwhile the two other raids also in the Portswood area saw six arrests
and a large quantity of cannabis seized.

Teams of officers used battering rams to enter the homes at Brickfield
Road and Northcote Road. Five men and a woman were led away from the
house at Brickfield Road into a waiting police van. Meanwhile more than
£3,000 worth of cannabis was found growing in a bedroom at the
end-of-terraced two bedroom home at nearby Northcote Road.
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