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Families have been compelled to evacuate a fireworks occasion after an out-of-control bonfire unfold to a caravan.

Firefighters are at the moment on the scene on the Foxley Hotel in Milton, Stoke-on-Trent.

A Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service spokesman stated: “We were called to the Foxley Hotel after in Milton at 7.45pm after a bonfire spread to a disused caravan.

“Crews from Hanley, Newcastle and Sandy ford attended. We are nonetheless on the scene however might be leaving shortly after the fireplace was introduced below management. Thankfully there have been no accidents.”

Describing the frightening scenes one mum said the gas canister went bang setting the caravan into a blaze causing scared children to scream.

She told StokeonTrentLive: “They set the bonfire and doused it in petrol however the bonfire was set proper subsequent to a caravan and a gasoline canister. The gasoline canister went bang and the caravan set on hearth.

“They tried to put it out with an extinguisher but it didn’t work. It was raging. They evacuated everyone. Children were screaming at children. It was awful.”

In an announcement on social media the Foxley Hotel stated: “Just to confirm, everybody is safe and sound. Our bonfire unfortunately spread to an empty caravan that was parked on our field.

“The hearth has fortunately been put out. Apologies to anyone that got here to observe the bonfire. Luckily the firework show had completed Thank-you to the fireplace brigade that got here to the rescue.”

The hotel jokingly added: “the place else are you able to go for 3 quid and have this form of drama?”