A 'major and critical' incident is unfolding at Falmouth Docks with a quarter of a mile exclusion zone set up.

Between 30 and 40 potentially explosive acetylene cylinders are either on fire or at risk of setting alight.

A couple of explosions have already been heard. Around 40 firefighters are at the scene, trying to put out the fire and also cool the remaining cylinders, in a bid to prevent them from going up also.

Two small areas of cylinders are currently alight but the fear is that two larger areas could also catch on fire.

Experts have warned that if this happened and the cylinders exploded they could go up “like a bomb” and it would be impossible to predict where it would land.

John Warren, a former firefighter, has described the situation as “critical.”

The first warning came around 8am, when the warning sirens at the docks sounded continuously for ten minutes.

The whole of the docks has been evacuated, as well as the surrounding area including the student flats on Pendennis Rise.

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