Blaze breaks out at Chorley landfill site
Firefighters were called to a waste disposal site in Chorley after a fire broke out at around 9pm on 21st May.
Six fire crews from the area spent over two hours tackling the blaze at the Clayton Hall Landfill Site in, Whittle-le-Woods, Chorley.
The fire started in a waste storage area and it is not yet known how the fire started.
A spokesman for Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service said: “The building on fire was a storage building for recyclable materials, from plastics through to metals. It is not thought that it is arson. We don’t know how it started, but we are currently looking into it. At the time of the fire, it was dark, so firefighters had to get lighting equipment set up. They used breathing apparatus, to go into the burning building, as there was a lot of smoke swirling around.”
An investigation into the cause of the fire is being carried out but it is not thought to be deliberate.