Chennai suburb residents wake up to toxic fumes after garbage catches fire at transfer station
While the municipality authorities claimed that it was due to summer heat, residents questioned how such massive flames could come up at 3 am
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Pallavaram residents woke up to toxic fumes after garbage in the transfer station there, located along the 200-feet radial road, caught fire (Photo | Special arrangement)
Express News Service
CHENNAI: Pallavaram residents woke up to toxic fumes on Tuesday after trash at a garbage transfer station there, along the 200-feet radial road, caught fire.
Municipality officials said the garbage, consisting of both bio-degradable and non-biodegradable waste, caught fire at 3 am on Tuesday. "It came to our knowledge only at 4:30 am. We doused the flames by 10:45 am with the help of eight fire engines," said a municipality official.