Sign up for the MyWigan newsletter for the biggest stories direct to your inbox A young woman has been taken to hospital after a fire engulfed a lorry trailer full of tyres.
The blaze broke out on a site off Bickershaw Lane, Wigan, at about 10.15am today (Tuesday, August 24). Plumes of black smoke could be spotted for miles around and eyewitnesses reported hearing a series of 'loud bangs'.
Annmarie Barnsley said she heard what sounded like three 'huge explosions' from her home in Platt Bridge. READ MORE:Man in 20s in hospital after being shot on his doorway She added: "I came out my house to see what was going on and there was black smoke coming from the back of the trees. "There were several more quieter explosions which sounded like gas
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