The Fire Officer and his colleagues arrived on Coronation Street one night in February 2019 to put out a blaze that had started on Peter Barlow's boat that had been "moored" on a trailer outside the Underworld factory and that he was doing up prior to summer cruising from the island of Kefalonia.
The next day, the officer conducted an examination and traced the blaze to a broken paraffin lamp that had been left on the trailer, though he was unable to say if the fire had been started deliberately. Peter suspected a jilted Abi Franklin of being the culprit and wanted the officer's evidence used as part of the police investigation but Carla Connor saw on CCTV footage that the surprising arsonist was a sleepwalking Roy Cropper.