Crew responds to douse rubbish fire

By Nub News Reporter 7th Nov 2026

Local News by Nub News Reporter 12 minutes ago

A SPEEDY response by firefighters from Orsett brought an end to a rubbish fire that sent a plume of smoke over Tilbury this afternoon (Saturday, 7 November).

The blaze was in a field of grazing horses adjacent to the new Tilbury Lidl store. A crew accessed the fire via Biggins Lane just before 3.30pm.

Firefighters reported a pile of rubbish was alight and worked to extinguish it by 3.55pm. The cause is unknown.

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