Drama after masonry falls from High Street chimney stack in Kingussie
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Traffic was stopped and shops closed today (July 22) in Kingussie High Street after a chunk of harling fell 30ft from a chimney stack.
Police and firefighters were soon on the scene after the alarm shortly after 2pm, where they discovered that no-one had been hurt but the chunk had reportedly made "quite a dent" in what had been sitting directly below.
A new Ford Ranger pick-up estimated to be worth some £30,000 or more had just been parked on the spot outside the Co-op and Boots Chemist.
A cordon went around the pavement in the direct area of the fall and police and firefighters guided the busy afternoon traffic around the area.
One firefighter told the Strathy: "It's incredibly fortunate nobody was hurt. It's directly over the pavement.
"We would go up and check the rest of the stack ourselves but we were ordered to wait for a high-reach platform from Inverness."
