Firefighters from Middletown and numerous other towns spent Saturday and Sunday battling a massive blaze at a garbage processing plant.
Crews from Guilford to Newington responded to the Middletown scene Saturday night, and some responders remained at the plant well into Sunday. The fire was officially cleared at 10:30 a.m.
The Westfield Fire Department, one of three in Middletown, received a call at 9:45 p.m. Saturday, according to Deputy Chief Darrell Ponzio. The call reported a structure fire at Dainty Rubbish Service.
Ponzio, who was on the scene for the duration of the fire, said the Industrial Park Road facility is a large, open space resembling a warehouse. That warehouse was filled with 100 to 120 tons of garbage, mostly construction debris — and it was on fire.