Pictures have emerged showing the full extent of last night’s devastating fire which caused an award-nominated chip shop in Aberdeen to go “up in smoke”.
Fire teams were called to Sea Salt and Sole close to Dyce Railway Station at 4.06am to deal with an extensive fire that had broke out at the premises.
The store had been nominated, and made it to the semifinals of the Best Newcomer award at the National Fish and Chip Awards 2016.
Teams are still currently at the site damping down any last remaining hot patches, but the blaze is understood to have lasted for up to three hours.
A spokeswoman for the fire service said that there will be an investigation carried out this morning to determine the cause of the fire.
Grame Hay, the fire service’s incident commander at the blaze, said: “Upon arrival we found a fire developing in the roof space and summoned more resources to tackle the fire as best we could.
“We got a height vehicle to take an aerial approach to it.
“It got into the roof space, and fires in the roof are inherently hard to tackle because obviously they’re built to keep the fire out.
“We couldn’t put crews into the building as there had been a partial structure collapse, so we were limited to fighting the fire from the outside.
“Fire investigation team are here for a joint investigation with Police Scotland.
“It is absolutely open and under discussion at the moment. It seems to have started outside, in the bin storage area.
“The owner is naturally devastated by this, his business has gone up in smoke.
“There’s a child daycare company to the rear of the chip shop that has also been totally destroyed as well.”
