Fire at Thorn Business Park on Rotherwas Industrial Estate

3:51pm Thursday 3rd January 2013 in News By Lydia Johnson

The fire at the Thorn Business Park. Picture by Old Hereford Pics. The fire at the Thorn Business Park. Picture by Old Hereford Pics.

FIRE crews were called to a large blaze on Hereford's Rotherwas Industrial Estate yesterday afternoon.

Four fire engines were called to the fire that started in a generator ventilation system in Longma Clean Energy on the Thorn Industrial Estate at 3.15pm.

No injuries were reported but smoke could be seen from the other side of the city when the blaze first began.

The fire was under control by 5pm but firefighters remained at the unit throughout the night to damp down.

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TwoWheelsGood says...
5:38pm Thu 3 Jan 13

That doesn't look like 'clean energy' to me - what with that and the MDF fire, its hardly the safest place to be is it? Of course with a nice south-westerly, all the poisonous fumes can blow over the City for maximum effect.

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nickt2635 says...
6:33pm Thu 3 Jan 13

TwoWheelsGood wrote:
That doesn't look like 'clean energy' to me - what with that and the MDF fire, its hardly the safest place to be is it? Of course with a nice south-westerly, all the poisonous fumes can blow over the City for maximum effect.
They're certainly blowing across Bobblestock!!! You can smell them taste them and see the smoke in car headlights!!!

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trucking says...
6:36pm Thu 3 Jan 13

They used to sell smelly old chip fat as a bio fuel for diesel vehicles, dont no if they still do. Hope it wasnt to bad as there are hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of council gritters parked next door, hope longma have insurance.

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mizza21 says...
9:38am Fri 4 Jan 13

NOOOOoooooo, Not The Enterprise Zone !!!!
trucking, are you aware that the phrase "council gritter" has a rather euphemistic alter ego and caused me to splutter coffee on my keyboard in a very childish fit of tittering?
Can one insure one's "council gritter" as it were?

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TwoWheelsGood says...
11:57am Fri 4 Jan 13

Urban Dictionary is your friend (or possibly not).

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