BREAKING NEWSHuge fire erupts at UK nuclear submarine shipyard: Barrow site is currently building new £1.6bn Astute-class vessel - local residents tell of fears as smoke pours from historic dock

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Emergency services have swarmed a UK nuclear submarine shipyard after reports of a huge fire breaking out. 

Footage online shows smoke billowing from BAE Systems in Barrow, as locals say the building has gone up in flames.

Shocking snaps appeared to show a blaze burning inside the massive warehouse, thought to be currently being used to build a 1.6billion sub for the Royal Navy.

HMS Agincourt, an Astute-class nuclear-powered fleet submarine currently under construction, is understood to be currently at the site.

The warehouse has made all but three of the UK’s nuclear submarines. 

There are reports a fire has broken out at BAE Systems in Barrow

Smoke can be seen billowing from a building which is used as a nuclear submarine shipyard

Some residents say they have been evacuated due to the blaze 

Locals on social media claimed they had been evacuated as a result of the incident.  

Fire crews were said to have been raced to the Devonshire Dock Hall not long after midnight.  

MailOnline has contacted Cumbria Police and the Cumbria Fire Service for more details.

MoD has also been approached for comment.

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