The Trinidad and To­ba­go Sol­id Waste Man­age­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (SWM­COL) has con­firmed that two fires were de­tect­ed at the Beetham Land­fill Site at ap­prox­i­mate­ly 11:30pm on Wednes­day (Feb­ru­ary 19, 2025).

Ac­cord­ing to a state­ment is­sued by SWM­COL a short while ago, one fire is lo­cat­ed on the east­ern side while the oth­er is on the west­ern tip of the land­fill.

“The fire on the West­ern Tip is gen­er­at­ing smoke, which may af­fect the air qual­i­ty of Port of Spain and En­vi­rons,” SWM­COL ad­vis­es.

SWM­COL says its Emer­gency Man­age­ment Team is work­ing close­ly with the Trinidad and To­ba­go Fire Ser­vices (TTFS) to ex­tin­guish the flames and bring both fires un­der con­trol.

The waste man­age­ment com­pa­ny says it will up­date the pub­lic in sub­se­quent bul­letins.