Firefighters are tackling a large blaze involving about 700 tonnes of cardboard. <\/p>\n
Smoke from the fire in Everite Road in Widnes, Cheshire, could be seen for miles. <\/p>\n
A Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said no one had been injured in the fire, which broke out in a single-storey building.<\/p>\n
“All persons are accounted for and no casualties have been reported,” they said.<\/p>\n
“The fire has spread rapidly and is causing a heavy plume of smoke,” they said. <\/p>\n
“Owing to the risk of the building collapsing, firefighters are tackling the blaze from the exterior.”<\/p>\n
Eight fire crews from places including Widnes, Runcorn, Warrington and Frodsham were called out to the incident.<\/p>\n
Officers from Cheshire Police are managing traffic at the scene.<\/p>\n
“There are no reports of any injuries at this time,” a force spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
Road closures are currently in place on Everite Road, Hale Road and Ditchfield Road, and motorists are advised to avoid the area.<\/p>\n
Nearby residents and businesses are also advised to keep windows and doors closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters are tackling a large blaze involving about 700 tonnes of cardboard. Smoke from the fire in Everite…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-652578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}