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Fire at Bando Yard Burns Plastic Materials and Vehicles; No End in Sight for Extinguishing Efforts
April 9, 2026 (Thursday) Around 12:15 PM on April 9, a fire broke out near the yard of a plastic processing company in Terahisa, Bando City, Ibaraki Prefecture. The fire burned the company's single-story steel-framed building, plastic materials, and vehicles belonging to an adjacent used car dealership. While there were no injuries, as of 9:00 PM that day, there was no end in sight for extinguishing the blaze. The Ibaraki Prefectural Police Kanzaki Station has implemented traffic restrictions on an approximately 2-kilometer section of a prefectural road running nearby and is investigating the cause of the fire.
激しく黒煙を上げる火災現場=9日午後2時50分ごろ、坂東市寺久
According to the police station and the Seinan Wide-Area Fire Department, the plastic processing company's premises contained items such as flexible container bags filled with plastic chips (finely crushed plastic). An 87-year-old woman nearby noticed the smoke and called 110 (the emergency number in Japan).
In November of last year, a fire also occurred at a waste plastic recycling plant within the same city. On this day, the city issued warnings to nearby facilities, including the municipal Nanae Elementary School, advising them not to open windows. A woman living nearby said, "I was shocked to see the huge plume of smoke. I'm worried because it's still burning."
