ELEVEN people were evacuated from a printing press warehouse in Bicester after a fire.
The blaze started shortly before 10pm on Thursday in a printing machine at Benham Goodhead Print, BGP, in Launton Road.
Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service sent two fire engines from its Bicester station and one from Rewley Road, Oxford.
At its peak the fire, in a papersaw in a printing machine, was said to be 15m wide and 5m high.
It was contained in the extraction system and put out using water hoses, ladders, and a cherry picker. BGP prints a host of magazines including Private Eye, New Statesman, the Beano and Dandy comics and More and Star magazines.
The firm, along with its sister firm Stones, in Banbury, also printed the official programme for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
BGP declined to comment on the economic cost of the fire or whether it had stopped printing output.
A cause of the fire had not been released yesterday.
l Meanwhile firefighters tackled a blaze at a home in Greater Leys, Oxford, yesterday. Fire crews from Rewley Road and The Slade stations were called to the semi-detached house in Kingfisher Green shortly before 10am.
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