Firefighters remain at Smethwick recycling plant

Posted on 1 Jul 2013

The industrial fire which at the Smethwick recycling factory still has a crew of firefighters at the incident which was caused by a single Chinese lantern.

Plant machinery is being used to get to the seat of the fire by breaking up bales of burnt plastic. A fleet of 45 fire crews from across the West Midlands were sent to the Jayplas depot, Dartmouth Road, on Monday in what is being labelled as one of the largest fires seen in the…

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