Updated at 11.40am - New video
Firefighters rushed to Marsa's quays on Tuesday morning after a fire broke out inside a warehouse used to house carnival floats at Xatt il-Mollijiet.
Five fire engines were dispatched to the site and members of the Civil Protection Department quickly got to work, hosing water through an open first-floor window as black smoke blew out of the building.
Their work was complicated by strong northwesterly winds blowing across the country and which spread the flames.
By 10.30am the CPD had sent two further fire engines and a water bowser to help put out the flames. An ambulance and staff of paramedics waited on standby.
No peoplewere inside the warehouse when the fire broke out but two dogs were rescued.
Carnival floats were taken out before they were damaged, sources said.
Busy day today for the Civil Protection Department, responding to two major fires within hours from each other. The movie document the rescue of 2 dogs from the roof of the carnival warehouse. The incessant gale force wind made the rescue even more difficult. pic.twitter.com/jjlrs3o14I
— Civil Protection_MT (@CPD_MT) March 12, 2019
Photo: Jonathan Borg
Photo: Jonathan Borg
Photo: Jonathan Borg
Photo: Jonathan Borg
Photo: Jonathan Borg
Photo: Jonathan Borg
Photo: Mark Zammit Cordina