Staff flee blaze as smoke pours from Oldbury Co-op
Staff were evacuated from an Oldbury supermarket after a fire started in the storage area.
Fire crews from Oldbury and Smethwick attended the Co-op store, in Tame Road, at around 4pm on Monday, following two emergency calls.
Five members of staff were evacuated from the store in Kingsway, after the fire is believed to have started in the storage room.
A spokesman from West Midlands Fire Service said that ten firefighters were sent to the scene.
Video footage of the blaze showed thick grey smoke billowing into the sky above the Co-op.
Two firefighters wearing breathing apparatus used hose reel jets to extinguish the blaze.
Foley Drive was closed as a result of the fire but Tame Road remained open as normal.
