Firefighters in Halifax, Nova Scotia, battled a large fire for several hours Friday at Burnside Industrial Park in the Dartmouth area.
The fire started late in the morning in the company yard Dartmouth Metals Ltd.for a reason not yet determined.
It is a recycling center for metals, mostly cars, commonly known as yard in scrap.
Firefighters controlled the blaze by afternoon and extinguished the blaze around 6:30 p.m., the Halifax Regional Municipality Fire Chief said. Pat Kline.
Poor air quality
In a phone interview early Friday night, the fire chief said an Environment Canada team was at the scene to identify any contamination.
They also deployed a floating boom in the basin of Bedfordto prevent pouring the remaining oil into the water. We looked, we saw no oil in the water flowing from the sitesaid Pat Kline.
During the day, the smoke was so thick and the air quality was so poor that emergency services around 1 p.m. sent an alert message to residents ’phones, warning those in the area to close their homes. windows.
There is always smoke in the area at night. Air quality has greatly improvedhowever, it was indicated around 8 pm in the count Twitter Halifax Regional Municipality official.
The fire on this scrapyard caused no damage.
Source: Radio-Canada
