Fire engines and a helicopter were deployed to Blackpool Tower to free orange netting blowing in the wind
Six fire engines, drones, a specialist climbing team, several police officers and a helicopter equipped with a thermal-imaging unit were scrambled to Blackpool Tower on Thursday after reports of a fire.
People were evacuated from their homes, streets cordoned off and witnesses spoke of chaos. But it was never a towering inferno, just orange netting blowing in the wind.
