Firefighters continue to tackle fire at Preston Docks waste site

The waste plant site at Wallend Road on the Docks Pic: Google

Firefighters remain on the scene at the city’s Docks after a major fire overnight.

At its height in Wallend Road eight fire crews, two aerial ladder platforms, a command unit, drone unit and a ‘high volume pump’ were deployed.

Crews were in attendance in Ashton-on-Ribble from around 8.40pm on Sunday (28 July).

Shortly before 1am on Monday (29 July) the fire service said they had reduced the number of crews at the scene to four and they were ‘working alongside the staff at the site to extinguish the fire’.

There is a large waste transfer site at the Docks – operated by Lancashire County Council – which is where the fire is understood to be.

A spokesperson for the fire service said it was a ‘small waste fire’ in a building and had been quickly contained.

A Lancashire County Council spokesperson said: “Emergency services attended a fire on Sunday evening at the waste transfer station on Wallend Road in Preston. The incident was resolved and our officers are cooperating with an investigation.”

It’s the second fire at the site in recent weeks after crews were sent to Wallend Road in early June.

An Environment Agency spokesperson said: “On Sunday evening we responded to a waste fire at Wallend Road in Preston.

“Due to action taken by operators, who followed the Environment Agency’s fire prevention guidance issued over the winter, the fire was quickly contained and its spread minimised.”

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