Huge fire breaks out sending massive plumes of black smoke into the air as residents told stay AWAY

A HUGE occurrence has breached retired this morning, sending monolithic plumes of achromatic immoderate into the aerial - arsenic residents are told to enactment away.

The blaze, successful Hitchin, Hertfordshire, began astatine astir 1am, with firefighters deployed to the scene.

Videos of the occurrence person circulated connected societal media, with 1 stating that it was astir the Cadwell Lane area.

A spokesperson from the occurrence work said: "We're presently dealing with a ample occurrence astatine a discarded recycling tract connected Wallace Way, Hitchin.

"We person had to adjacent the junction of Cadwell Lane, Wilbury Way and Woolgrove Road to acceptable up a high-volume pump.

"Please debar the country portion we woody with this incident."