Thule Bar evacuated

A POPULAR Lerwick pub was evacuated for a short time on Saturday night after a carbon dioxide extinguisher was knocked open by accident.

Emergency services were called to the Thule Bar, on Lerwick’s Esplanade, at just before 9pm.

Fire fighters removed the extinguisher from the premises and vented the building. The emergency was over less than an hour later.

CO2 extinguishers are used to put out electrical and liquid fires. They work by suffocating a fire by replacing oxygen with carbon dioxide.