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Large fire breaks out at landscaping firm

Sam Read,BBC News, Woburn Sandsand
Shivani Chaudhari,BBC News, Buckinghamshire
News imageDan Hailes A residential area with a big orange plume of smoke coming out of one of the buildings.Dan Hailes
Fire and smoke could be seen across the area during the early hours of Friday

Firefighters have tackled a blaze at a landscaping business on the outskirts of Milton Keynes.

Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service crews were called to Turney Landscapes, on Cranfield Road near Woburn Sands, in the early hours of the morning.

Anand Rai, the business's finance manager, told the BBC it received a call about midnight that the office and the yard had caught fire.

The fire service said two water canons and three pumps were used in order to extinguish the blaze. The cause of it is being investigated.

News imageSam Read/BBC Two fire engines and a car parked on the road. There are people standing outside the vehicles.Sam Read/BBC
Fire crews remained at the scene of the blaze as daylight emerged

Mr Rai said: "We still don't know the cause of the fire. It's 09:00 and they've just about put the fire down now, so it took quite a lot of time.

"We don't know the extent of the damage.

"It will take some time to take the business into normality."

News imageSam Read/BBC Orange and white cones with a 'police slow' sign on the road.Sam Read/BBC
A road closure was put in place while crews tackled the flames

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