Cardiff’s fire fighters had to skip breakfast this morning as they got an early call reporting a rubbish fire, which in the end turned out to be a building fire at the Royal Mail sorting office. Fire fighters were called to the Royal Mail centre on Penarth Road at 8.50am, after the blaze broke out in a loading bay near the delivery office just outside the Royal Mail depot’s main building.

Four fire engines attended the scene and two water bowsers were used to bring the fire under control. The fire damaged a few Royal Mail vans parked nearby but no one was injured, all 150 workers were evacuated safely and sent home for the day.

Royal Mail said customers in the CF10, CF11 and small parts of CDF23 and CF24 postal areas will have their mail delivered as soon as post men are able to get into the building again. Business mail is thought to be unaffected and collections will take place with an earlier final posting time of between 3:30pm and 4:30pm. General Manager for south and west Wales, Mr Paul Kelly said:

“We’ve had a major fire here at the sorting office this morning. Services will be disrupted this morning. We will not be delivering any post around Cardiff this morning.”

He also said they were in touch with their Swansea office and would be contacting colleagues at Bristol and Gloucester for assistance.