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A fire which broke out at the Beetham Land­fill on Fri­day has been ex­tin­guished and the site was ex­pect­ed to open with nor­mal op­er­at­ing hours to­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Sol­id Waste Man­age­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (SWM­COL) said crews suc­cess­ful­ly put out the blaze which be­gan on March 13.

The com­pa­ny con­tin­ues work to ad­dress resid­ual smoke at the land­fill, which may in­ter­mit­tent­ly af­fect near­by com­mu­ni­ties.