Fire crews attended a boat on fire afloat on the canal on Sunday evening. No one was on board.
A fire spokesman said that crews – all wearing buoyancy aids – had managed to pull the boat closer to the banks so they can continue to try and put out the flames.
A search of the canal bank was also carried out as GMFRS try to establish if anyone was on board and how it came to be there. It was later found that nobody was on the boat.
Huge clouds of black smoke could be seen billowing into the sky from several miles away.
