Firefighters tackle skip firm blaze in Bloxwich
[gallery] Fire crews tackled a blaze at a skip firm involving around 100 tons of rubbish today.
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Twenty firefighters were called to Viking Skip Hire, in Bloxwich, Walsall, at midday.
Firefighters from Bloxwich tweeted this dramatic picture of a firefighter tackling the blaze from a platform.
Station commander Colin Newton, from Walsall fire station, said staff had been burning rubbish in a skip when embers set fire to a nearby pile of waste.
