US Tyre Fire Extinguished

The tyre fire in Roanoke, Virginia, which has been burning for 25 days, has finally been extinguished. The blaze began when a brush fire ignited an estimated four million tyres, the result of forty years’ collection of casings to supply a recycling/retreading venture that never got started. An official estimated that only 3,500 tyres remain and that the clean-up operation should last only weeks.