A FIRE in a town-centre cafe caused traffic chaos. The fire started in the cooking range of The Hellenic Cafe in Baldwin Street at about 4.30pm last Thursday. And although it took firefighters only 90 minutes to bring the fire under control, they had to remain at the scene for four hours, causing severe traffic congestion on the busy street. Severe smoke damage was caused to the first floor of the building which houses the Limassol restaurant, and there was fire damage to about four metres of the timber floor. Gavin's Butchers, next door to the cafe, also suffered smoke damage to the first floor and some fire damage to the timber floor joists.

The crews had to remain at the scene to ensure there were no embers left in the ducting which could have caused another blaze.

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