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Firefighters tackle blaze involving 12 tonnes of paper at commercial skip in Shrewsbury

Fire crews spent more than two hours at the scene of a skip fire on a Shrewsbury industrial estate.

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The Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service was called to Battlefield Enterprise Park in Shrewsbury at around 9.10pm yesterday (July 30) following reports of a fire.

Three crews from Shrewsbury and Wem fire stations were sent.

When they arrived the firefighters found a commercial skip containing around 12 tonnes of newspapers alight. 

The teams put out the blaze using jets and drag rakes and used a thermal imaging camera to check for hotspots.

The incident was under control by 11.30pm.