Crews have been visiting the site in Lows Lane, in Stanton-by-Dale, since about 8, 000 tonnes of material caught alight on 15 September.

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On July 10th, up to 250 people were killed, and many more badly burned, at Adeje near Warri in southern Nigeria, when oil leaking from a damaged pipeline caught alight, causing an explosion that engulfed in fire an area four kilometres (2.5 miles) across.

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"In two of the incidents the fires caught on, one of them set alight a nearby garage, the other caught on to a house, " he said.

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