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Fairglen interchange fire disrupts Liverpool Street line and A1245 Fairglen interchange fire disrupts Liverpool Street line and A1245
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Trains have been halted near the site of a large tyre fire because of smoke. Trains have been halted and motorists diverted because of smoke caused by a tyre fire.
Police have closed the A1245 between the Fairglen interchange at Rayleigh and the Carpenters Arms roundabout due to the fire.Police have closed the A1245 between the Fairglen interchange at Rayleigh and the Carpenters Arms roundabout due to the fire.
Essex Fire and Rescue Service warned the fire could be "a protracted incident". The burning tyre stack, on a waste storage, site is 164ft (50m) long and 6ft 6in (2m) high.
Train services on the nearby Southend Victoria to London Liverpool Street rail line have been stopped between Rayleigh and Wickford due to the smoke. Essex Fire Service warned the fire, which started on Monday night, could be "a protracted incident".
Train services on the nearby Southend Victoria to London Liverpool Street rail line have been stopped between Rayleigh and Wickford.
A police spokesman said: "Motorists and commuters are advised to seek alternative routes for their morning travel arrangements and leave extra time for their journeys."A police spokesman said: "Motorists and commuters are advised to seek alternative routes for their morning travel arrangements and leave extra time for their journeys."
Divisional officer Gary Jeffrey, of Essex Fire and Rescue, said: "It is a large pile of tyres which have been tightly bound together at a waste storage site. Because the tyres are so densely packed and tightly bound it is proving difficult to get water on to much of the fire. Divisional officer Gary Jeffrey, of Essex Fire and Rescue, said: "It is a large pile of tyres which have been tightly bound together at a waste storage site.
"Because the tyres are so densely packed and tightly bound it is proving difficult to get water on to much of the fire.
"We anticipate that this will be a protracted incident.""We anticipate that this will be a protracted incident."