Crews called to rubbish truck fires in Portsmouth this morning
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Three vehicles were mobilised to Wimpole Court, in Landport, at 1.05am on August 5 after materials caught alight in the back of two privately owned waste disposal vans.
A spokesman for Southsea Fire Station said: ‘We were called to two rubbish collection vehicles at 1.05am.
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‘We were there about two hours.
‘Nobody was hurt.’
In a separate incident a crew from Southsea was also called to Kent Road, in Southsea, at 2.45am to extinguish a ‘small’ fire in the street.
It is believed a small pile of materials were set alight.
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