Bury scrapyard fire: Smoke billows over town as crews fight blaz

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Media captionFirefighters address massive scrapyard blaze

A enormous fire has damaged out at a scrapyard in Bury, Bigger Manchester, with sizable plumes of smoke billowing over town.

Twenty fire crews are tackling the blaze in Pimhole Street.

Contributors residing inside sight bear been warned to conclude indoors with windows shut and surrounding roads are closed.

Bigger Manchester Fireplace and Rescue Provider talked about the fire changed into as soon as “approximately 30m (98ft) by 30m and reaching 10m excessive”.

Nearby residents bear reported hearing explosions coming from the positioning.

Michelle Boudin from Bury talked about: “I might well even look it from my bedroom window, the fire is on the scrapyard at Pimhole, I specialize within the Autosave yard, it’s level-headed burning now and I can hear the explosions from right here.

“Fireplace provider bear issued assertion to claim take care of doorways and windows closed, and surrounding roads are closed.

“I might well presumably mumble my handiest hassle is that it doesn’t unfold to the farm which is extraordinarily shut to the yard.”

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Image caption 5 fire engines are on the scene of the blaze in Bury

She talked about there are chickens, alpacas, sheep, horses and other animals on the farm.

Justine Myers, 32, from Valley Mill Lane, Bury, talked about she can be able to look the fire from her first floor residing room and first observed it at about 18: 30 GMT.

“It is fully massive, the smoke is heavy, heavy murky and the flames are higher than the three storey constructing in front of it.”

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Image caption The blaze is ready 30m by 30m and about 10m excessive

And Sophia Meerally, 17, talked about she took a video of the fire.

“We had been to this point away and ought to level-headed level-headed feel the warmth on us.

“I changed into as soon as roughly 400m a long way from the fire. I changed into as soon as timid about of us closer to the fire and horrified about issues exploding that might well even presumably accomplish the fire worse,” she talked about.

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