Firefighters battling fire raging for 7 hours at Hong Kong recycling site

Firefighters have been battling a blaze at a recycling site in Hong Kong’s Tsing Yi for about seven hours since it broke out, two days after another fire erupted near the same spot.

The Fire Services Department was alerted at 4.12am on Tuesday that a fire had broken out at a recycling site at the junction of Tsing Sheung Road and Hong Wan Road in Tsing Yi in the New Territories.

The No 1 alarm fire was 50m (164 feet) long and 50m wide, the department said. It sent 11 fire engines, two fire boats and an ambulance to the scene.

The firefighting operation was still under way as of 11am, according to the department.

The blaze consumed metal and electronic waste, but no one was injured or evacuated, it added. The cause of the fire had yet to be determined.

Smoke rises from the site of the fire at the Tsing Yi recycling site near Stonecutters Bridge. Photo: Sun Yeung
Smoke rises from the site of the fire at the Tsing Yi recycling site near Stonecutters Bridge. Photo: Sun Yeung

Online footage and photos showed flames and smoke rising from the site. Thick smoke could also be seen from Hong Kong Island.

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