The tyre fire that has been burning since Sunday at a site in Londonderry where tyres were being stored illegally has finally been extinguished. Firefighters arriving to tackle the blaze on Sunday night found four separate fires across the one-acre site at Eglinton. The fire service said tackling the blaze had been a "mammoth task" and the cost of the operation is expected to run into tens of thousands of pounds.
Fire crews have been tackling flames, thick smoke and fumes and piles of burning material at the premises of Kingpin Tyre in Wem, Shropshire, since Tuesday. Firefighters said several mounds of “waste rubber,” covering an area of around 60 metres had caught fire. A report in the Whitchurch Herald said that plumes of black smoke could be seen up to 20 miles away as 200 tonnes of rubber went up in smoke and that firefighters expect to battle the blaze and control smouldering material for the best part of a week.
Two 11-year old girls were arrested on suspicion of starting a fire which destroyed a warehouse storing shredded tyres ready to be recycled. The warehouse, owned by Joliet, Illinois-based tyre recycler Tire Grinder Transporters, was ablaze for five hours before firefighters brought it under control.
People in Londonderry were being warned to stay inside and shut doors and windows as a precaution against a plume of smoke from a tyre fire in the area. 10,000 tyres were alight at premises on the Pennyburn Industrial Estate and light wind conditions meant that the smoke was not being dispersed. 41 firefighters were […]
Firefighters were called to a fire in a unit used to store used tyres in Nottingham over the weekend. The firemen should have had no trouble finding the place, as this was the fourth time they have been called out to it in the past two weeks and to no fewer than 18 arson attacks over the past two years. The latest blaze was also arson, fire chiefs confirmed.
Craig Dooley, head of Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue’s arson taskforce, said crews may have to let fires at the site burn, as the risk to firefighters was too great. 70 nearby residents were evacuated from their homes and allowed to return after five hours. Nottingham City Council said that it had made attempts to contact the owners to talk about making the site more secure, but these had so far proved unsuccessful.
A tyre fire at the premises of FC Tyre Collection Services in Crosby-on-Eden, near Carlisle, has been described as one of the largest fires seen in Cumbria for years. More than 70 firefighters worked to bring the fire, involving hundreds of burning tyres, under control. Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service received an emergency call at 2.30am on September 25, and spend most of the day battling to contain the blaze.
Over 50 firefighters battled a large tyre fire near Matchams raceway site, Hampshire on Wednesday 20 September. The fire, according to reports, affected 100 tonnes of tyres. A spokesman said: “We have not yet fully investigated the incident but cannot rule out the possibility of this being an arson attack.”
The tyre-based liner of a former quarry near Sevenoaks in Kent is still burning, eight months after a fire was started by arsonists. The owner of the site, Cory Environmental, had planned to turn the land into a new landfill site.
More than 2,000 tyres were engulfed in the blaze on Tuesday night, at the Chawton End Peugeot garage near Alton. About 200 people have been moved to safety. Mike Gates, spokesman for Hampshire Fire and Rescue, said although firefighting equipment had the flames under control, though firefighters had to pull back from the blaze due to the danger from stored oxygen and acetylene cylinders at the garage.
An investigation into a tyre fire at a landfill site is to begin later this week. The fire was in a landfill site at Grunty Fen, Cambridgeshire and an estimated 1,800 tonnes of shredded tyres were destroyed. It took firefighters more than 12 hours to extinguish the blaze, the cause of which is not known, although arson has not been ruled out.
The tyre fire which has been burning in Pasadena since October 19th is causing concern among environmentalists. The levels of solvents detected in run-off water is exceeding levels recommended by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. The fire started when a stolen car was set alight, igniting the piles of tyres stored on the site.
“Hundreds of thousands” of scrap tyres on a three-acre dump in Pasadena have been burning since late Saturday night, sending flames 300 feet into the air. Between 50 and 60 firefighters are at the scene around the clock. The blaze started when a stolen car was deliberately set alight and the flames spread to the tyre dump.
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. This compares to the clean-up after Virginia’s worst-ever tyre fire, which is still on-going nearly two decades after the fire.
A fire at a 145 acre tyre dump in Virginia has created a State of Emergency. This allows State resources to be used to contain the fire in a dump estimated to hold over 4 million waste tyres. Authorities expect to let the fire burn out and say it may take months to combust all the waste. The operator was fined for the illegal dump over a decade ago, but nothing could be done to force him to clear the waste heap.
An illegal tyre dump, covering 145 acres and containing an estimated four million tyres, caught fire over the weekend near the city of Roanoke, Virginia. 50 people left their homes, but returned later when the wind changed direction. The cause of the blaze is not known. Governor Mark Warner declared a state of emergency on Sunday, which means that the county can use state resources. Such fires are usually left to burn themselves out, as water run-off could contain toxic chemicals. Officials said the fire “could burn for months”.
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