Firefighters battle blaze after tonne of cartridges set alight
More than a tonne of old ink cartridges were set on fire in an arson attack at the site of a new super hospital in Sandwell.
The fire was reported at around 5pm yesterday evening at a site off Grove Lane in West Bromwich which is currently being demolished to make way for a new hospital.
Andy Shakespeare, watch commander at Smethwick fire station, said the fire burned for 90 minutes before firefighters managed to put it out.
Crews were on scene until around 8pm and had to use a bobcat digger to sift through the rubbish to make sure the fire was extinguished.
He said: "There was about a tonne of old plastic ink cartridges which had been set on fire. There were hundreds of hundreds of them, and some other rubbish was also involved.
"We left the scene at 8.10pm and handed it over to the on site security team."
