LONDON—Smurfit Kappa has resumed some operations at a packaging plant in central England after a large fire ripped through the facility overnight, the local fire service said on Monday.
West Midlands Fire Service said more than 100 firefighters from across the region around Birmingham had made progress containing the blaze that they were alerted to at 6:40 p.m. GMT on Sunday. It said there were no reports of any casualties.
The fire was declared a major incident after 8,000 tons of compressed cardboard caught fire. Pictures and drone footage posted by the fire service online showed bales of cardboard on fire across a large area of the site….