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Massive fire at Bhalswa landfill in north Delhi, 4th landfill fire in a month -Paras Singh

-Hindustan Times

Garbage dumping at the Bhalswa landfill site spread over 36 acre started in 1994. It has an accumulated legacy waste weighing 80 lakh tonnes

NEW DELHI: A massive fire broke out at the Bhalswa landfill site in north Delhi on Tuesday evening, the fourth such largescale fire in Delhi’s landfill site over the last month. The other three fires were reported from east Delhi’s Ghazipur landfill site.

Nearly 10 fire tenders of the Delhi Fire Services (DFS) have been battling the blaze since 5.45pm. A senior north municipal corporation said efforts to douse the fire were on till late in the night and the corporation has deployed excavators to dump sand on the origin of the fire. “It has not yet known whether the fire was caused by methane generation or some human activity,” the municipal official clarified on condition of anonymity.

The frequency of landfill fires has increased with the rise in temperature. The first major inferno this summer was reported at Ghazjpur on March 28, and it continued to burn for three days, with thick fumes blanketing the areas of Ghazipur, Kondli, Patparganj, IP Extension, Kaushambi and Khoda in Delhi and neighbouring Uttar Pradesh. Two more blazes were reported at the site on April 10 and April 20, the DFS said.

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