Large plumes of smoke seen over the Appspond Lane Wood Recycling site

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A silhouetted worker looks on at the large smoke plume. The Appspond Lane Wood Recycling centre near St Albans catches fire on a clear sunny winters morning. With a large smoke plume going up into the sky.

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The Appspond Lane Wood Recycling centre near St Albans catches fire on a clear sunny winters morning. With a large smoke plume going up into the sky. The M1 motorway (on the right) passes next to the recycling centre.

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The Appspond Lane Wood Recycling centre near St Albans catches fire on a clear sunny winters morning. With a large smoke plume going up into the sky. More wood is delivered to the centre.

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The Appspond Lane Wood Recycling centre near St Albans catches fire on a clear sunny winters morning. With a large smoke plume going up into the sky.

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The Appspond Lane Wood Recycling centre near St Albans catches fire on a clear sunny winters morning. With a large smoke plume going up into the sky.

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The Appspond Lane Wood Recycling centre near St Albans catches fire on a clear sunny winters morning. With a large smoke plume going up into the sky.

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The Appspond Lane Wood Recycling centre near St Albans catches fire on a clear sunny winters morning. With a large smoke plume going up into the sky.

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The Appspond Lane Wood Recycling centre near St Albans catches fire on a clear sunny winters morning. With a large smoke plume going up into the sky.

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The Appspond Lane Wood Recycling centre near St Albans catches fire on a clear sunny winters morning. With a large smoke plume going up into the sky.

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The Appspond Lane Wood Recycling centre near St Albans catches fire on a clear sunny winters morning. With a large smoke plume going up into the sky. A silhouetted worker looks on at the large smoke plume.

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An excavator turns over piles of smouldering wood. The Appspond Lane Wood Recycling centre near St Albans catches fire on a clear sunny winters morning. With a large smoke plume going up into the sky.

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The Appspond Lane Wood Recycling centre near St Albans catches fire on a clear sunny winters morning. With a large smoke plume going up into the sky.

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The Appspond Lane Wood Recycling centre near St Albans catches fire on a clear sunny winters morning. With a large smoke plume going up into the sky.

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The Appspond Lane Wood Recycling centre near St Albans catches fire on a clear sunny winters morning. With a large smoke plume going up into the sky.

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The Appspond Lane Wood Recycling centre near St Albans catches fire on a clear sunny winters morning. With a large smoke plume going up into the sky.

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The Appspond Lane Wood Recycling centre near St Albans catches fire on a clear sunny winters morning. With a large smoke plume going up into the sky.

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A worker looks on at the large smoke plume. The Appspond Lane Wood Recycling centre near St Albans catches fire on a clear sunny winters morning. With a large smoke plume going up into the sky.

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A worker looks on at the large smoke plume. The Appspond Lane Wood Recycling centre near St Albans catches fire on a clear sunny winters morning. With a large smoke plume going up into the sky.

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The Appspond Lane Wood Recycling centre near St Albans catches fire on a clear sunny winters morning. With a large smoke plume going up into the sky.

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The Appspond Lane Wood Recycling centre near St Albans catches fire on a clear sunny winters morning. With a large smoke plume going up into the sky.

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Workers at the Appspond Lane Wood Recycling centre look on as the large smoke plume goes up into the sky.

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The Appspond Lane Wood Recycling centre near St Albans catches fire on a clear sunny winters morning. With a large smoke plume going up into the sky.

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Large plumes of smoke could be seen beside the M1 motorway in Hertfordshire as a fire occurred at the Appspond Lane Wood Recycling site. A similar fire occurred at the same site a few years before. The site is in Potters Crouch just outside St Albans