Firefighters use PVSTOP to mitigate a fire involving solar panels at a home in Yapton, UK

West Sussex Fire & Rescue Service said Joint Fire Control mobilised four fire engines and an aerial ladder platform to the scene on Tuesday afternoon (March 18).

“We were called at 1.33pm to reports of a fire involving solar panels on a home in Dunnock Square, Yapton,” a fire service spokesperson said.

“Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus carried out an inspection of the building’s smoke-logged roof space using a thermal imaging camera, before using a specialist extinguisher PVSTOP on the solar panels.”

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Firefighters use PVSTOP to mitigate a fire involving solar panels at a home in Yapton, UK

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