Shropshire Star

Fire crews scrambled to bin lorry blaze in residential road

Two fire engines were scrambled to a bin lorry fire on Thursday afternoon.

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Fire appliances from Prees and Shrewsbury were sent to Blandford Way, Market Drayton, at 1.23pm.

An operations officer was also in attendance.

A spokesperson for Shropshire Fire & Rescue Service said it was a "fire involving a large amount of rubbish smouldering in back of bin lorry".

They added: "Crews have used one hosereel jet to extinguish fire in situ and later dampened down contents of refuse at Whitchurch refuse centre."

They also used a heat camera to check that the refuse had reached ambient temperatures.

The stop message was received at 2pm.