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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Bush fire strikes

Forres Park landfill

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Mo­torists dri­ving along the Solomon Ho­choy High­way near Clax­ton Bay are urged to pro­ceed with cau­tion as a bush fire has ig­nit­ed a sec­tion of the For­res Park Land­fill.

Ac­cord­ing to a re­lease is­sued by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Sol­id Waste Man­age­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (SWM­COL), the fire start­ed on the out­skirts of the land­fill as a bush fire and quick­ly spread in­wards.

Co­pi­ous amounts of smoke are in­ter­mit­tent­ly im­pact­ing the sur­round­ing ar­eas and high­way caus­ing vis­i­bil­i­ty prob­lems for mo­torists, the re­lease said.

All Agen­cies - T&T Fire Ser­vice, Wa­ter and Sewage Au­thor­i­ty and The Of­fice of Dis­as­ter Pre­pared­ness and Man­age­ment are at this time at the site at­tempt­ing to bring the fire un­der con­trol.

SWM­COL apol­o­gis­es for all in­con­ve­niences caused and will pro­vide fur­ther up­dates as in­for­ma­tion be­comes avail­able.

Ac­cord­ing to a re­lease is­sued by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Sol­id Waste Man­age­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (SWM­COL), the fire start­ed on the out­skirts of the land­fill as a bush fire and quick­ly spread in­wards.

Co­pi­ous amounts of smoke are in­ter­mit­tent­ly im­pact­ing the sur­round­ing ar­eas and high­way caus­ing vis­i­bil­i­ty prob­lems for mo­torists, the re­lease said.

All Agen­cies - T&T Fire Ser­vice, Wa­ter and Sewage Au­thor­i­ty and The Of­fice of Dis­as­ter Pre­pared­ness and Man­age­ment are at this time at the site at­tempt­ing to bring the fire un­der con­trol.

SWM­COL apol­o­gis­es for all in­con­ve­niences caused and will pro­vide fur­ther up­dates as in­for­ma­tion be­comes avail­able.


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