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The search for three firefighters missing in the charred shell of a warehouse devastated by fire may take up to two days, the fire officer leading the search has said.

More than 100 specially trained urban search and rescue firefighters began the task of locating their comrades who are missing, feared dead, in the shell of the vegetable packing warehouse in Atherstone-On-Stour, Warwickshire.

Chief officers said the search could take at least 36 hours and teams may need to shore up the building in Warwickshire before probing the more dangerous parts.

One firefighter, Ian Reid, has already been pronounced dead after the blaze which began in the early evening of Friday.

Speaking at their home on the outskirts of Stratford, his wife Julie said she had been called on to identify the body of her husband.

Firefighters have been unable to get access to the building to locate the three who remain missing.

As the search process continued, relatives of the three missing men began to grieve. They have been named locally as Ashley Stephens, 21, John Averis, 27, and 24-year-old Darren Yates-Badley.

Gathering with family members outside Alcester fire station, where all four men were retained firefighters, Mr Stephens' teenage fiancee laid flowers outside the main doors.

Grief-stricken Emma Crocker, only 17 and mother of the couple's three-month-old son George, wrote on a card attached to her flowers: "I love you with all of my heart and more. I will look after our baby boy.

"You will never be forgotten and you will never leave our hearts. You're a hero babe."