Video footage posted on Twitter shows clouds of smoke over the Charlton Center parking lot and ASDA store. Graham Tutthill was on site and filmed the smoke.
He said in a tweet: “The Dover Charlton Center parking lot caught fire and exploded. The fire station is only a few hundred yards away. I had to call the fire brigade.”
When asked if the fire brigade was on site, Mr Tutthill said they had called them.
He said, “Not then, it was literally just getting started, so I called them. It’s only a few hundred yards from the fire station. I think crews from other stations came too.”
An eyewitness told KentLive that firefighters were now on the scene.
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