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Firefighter photos show fire-engulfed rubbish lorry

Indy Almroth-Wright
BBC News, South
Bere Regis Fire Station Landfill site - mounds of barren earth with tyres tracks snaking through. In the centre is a vehicle with a large dark grey smoke plume coming from it.Bere Regis Fire Station
As the fire engulfed the lorry full of rubbish on a hill at a landfill site a huge soaring smoke plume could be seen for miles

Photographs taken by firefighters show the ferocity of a fire that engulfed a lorry full of rubbish.

The fire at Trigon Hill, Wareham, Dorset, sent out a vast smoke plume which could be seen for miles after it broke out shortly before 08:30 BST on Thursday.

The domestic waste had to be emptied from the lorry at the landfill site and dampened down, with the fire eventually put out over six hours later at about 15:00.

Bere Regis Fire Station, who took the striking photos and were the first fire crew to arrive at the scene, said it was "a very hot and stinky job".

Bere Regis Fire Station Landfill site - mounds of barren earth with scattered rubbish and a lorry engulfed in flames with smoke pouring out in the centre.Bere Regis Fire Station
The fire sent a huge plume of smoke up into the skies over Wareham
Bere Regis Fire Station A firefighter with hose spraying water onto a burning lorry surrounded by rubbish.Bere Regis Fire Station
The fire was eventually put out at about 15:00 and the area of landfill around the lorry was thoroughly dampened down

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