AN investigation has been launched following a suspected arson attack at Panama Sport Horses in Gisburn early this morning.
Firefighters from Barnoldswick, Nelson, and Clitheroe were called to the Park Road firm at around 1.40am.
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There they found three cars and an office block alight and spent the next three hours tackling the blaze using hose reels, a jet, breathing apparatus and around 45 litres of foam.
No horses or staff at the company, which supplied horses for the 2012 Olympic Games Modern Pentathlon, were hurt.
A joint probe between detectives at Lancashire Police and investigators from Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service is now underway.
Been to Gisburn to speak to the owners of a stables subjected to arson attack this morning. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/DBKm6wutGr
— Michael Morrison (@MikeMorrisonLT) April 17, 2015
They said it is a 'miracle nobody was killed'. 2/2 pic.twitter.com/cRcL8hOjAc
— Michael Morrison (@MikeMorrisonLT) April 17, 2015
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