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Three scrapyard fires in six months: Engineers urge mandatory inspections
Three scrapyard fires in six months: Engineers urge mandatory inspections

Three scrapyard fires in six months: Engineers urge mandatory inspections

Engineers on Monday called for stronger regulation and mandatory engineering inspections of scrapyards following three fires in six months that took hours to put out. The first fire, which broke out on November 12 at a scrapyard on the outskirts of Għaxaq, had lasted some 16 hours. It took 97 firefighters and 1.2 million litres of water to put out