A building was badly damaged in a fire on Exeter University campus in the early hours of this morning.
Fire crews were sent to Mardon Hill on the campus at 00:25am this morning following a report to the Fire Service Control Room of a workshop on fire at Mardon Hill.
On arrival at the scene crews confirmed a single storey building used as a workshop well alight.
Firefighters got to work with breathing apparatus and hose reels to extinguish the fire.
After an hour the officer in charge of the incident requested an additional appliance to attend the scene, one appliance from Crediton was sent.
By 02:27 the fire as out and had damaged a single storey out building used for prop storage.
The building was twenty percent damaged by fire with a further forty percent damaged by heat and smoke.
Crews extinguished the fire using six breathing apparatus, two hose reels, positive pressure ventilation fan and small tools
