The Trinidad and To­ba­go Sol­id Waste Man­age­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (SWM­COL) says a fire at the Beetham Land­fill has been con­tained.

In an ad­vi­so­ry is­sued to­day, SWM­COL said the fire, which orig­i­nat­ed in the south-west­ern sec­tion of the land­fill on Sat­ur­day, Feb­ru­ary 7, has been suc­cess­ful­ly brought un­der con­trol.

The com­pa­ny said nor­mal op­er­a­tions at the Beetham Land­fill will re­sume on Mon­day, Feb­ru­ary 9.

SWM­COL warned that al­though the fire has been con­tained, smoke from the in­ci­dent may in­ter­mit­tent­ly af­fect sur­round­ing ar­eas. It urged mem­bers of the pub­lic, par­tic­u­lar­ly those with res­pi­ra­to­ry con­di­tions, to ex­er­cise cau­tion when trav­el­ling along the Beetham High­way and near­by com­mu­ni­ties.

SWM­COL apol­o­gised for the in­con­ve­nience caused and said it will con­tin­ue to mon­i­tor the sit­u­a­tion and take all nec­es­sary mea­sures to en­sure pub­lic safe­ty.