Superdrug "false alarm" causes street closures

Thursday 14 April 2022

Four streets in town were closed off this morning after an apparent fire in Superdrug - which later turned out to be a smoke screen.

Islanders firstly thought there was a blaze in the store around 08:00 due to smoke appearing to emanate from the building.

It's believed that the intruder alarm, which activated the smoke screen, was accidentally set off when the town cosmetics store was opened this morning.

Broad Street, Pitt Street, Dumaresq Street and part of King Street were all closed off as firefighters went to inspect the source of the 'fire'.

Pedestrians were asked on social media by police to "avoid the area".

The area was opened up again around an hour later by 09:00.