Waste Station Fire Causes Smoke Haze

November 10, 2006 A school has been closed and people advised to stay indoors as smoke from a fire spreads across a northwest Tasmanian city. Devonport City Council infrastructure service manager Don Anderson said the fire started at the council's waste transfer station at Spreyton, south of Devonport, on Wednesday. It was now burning some 10,000 cu m of mulched material. The city of Devonport was covered in haze this morning but a change of wind had shifted the smoke to Spreyton, forcing the temporary ...