Pune: Major fire breaks out at Moshi garbage depot

The fire started around 5 pm and continues to rage hours later. Five fire tenders are trying to control the blaze.

A waste-to-energy facility is supposed to come up at the site. (Express photo)

A major fire broke out at Pune’s Moshi garbage depot on Wednesday evening. As per information available, the fire started around 5 pm and continues to rage hours later. Five fire tenders are trying to control the blaze.

A major fire broke out at Moshi garbage depot, #Pune. Five fire tenders are trying to control the blaze. https://t.co/mTRfereIV7 pic.twitter.com/nALiZVNZcU

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Located off the Pune Nashik Highway, the Moshi garbage depot is the landfill site for the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation. The site sees daily dumping of garbage from the civic body. Most of this garbage is mixed waste.

A waste-to-energy facility is supposed to come up at the site.

Given the inflammable nature of the dumped garbage, fire during the summer months is not uncommon. While small fires go unnoticed, large conflagration might take days or hours to control.

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