A30 smoke risk as firefighters tackle barn blaze

The large barn is well alight, full of flames. Black and grey smoke is billowing in to the air. There is a tractor parked near the barn door with two piles of aggregate next to it. The corner of a stone building is in the foreground. St Dennis Community Fire Station

A 164ft (50m) cordon is in place and a road near the farm has been closed

Nearly 50 firefighters are tackling a large barn fire at a farm in Cornwall.

Drivers have been urged to take care because of smoke across the A30 close to the Carland Cross interchange.

Crews from Newquay, St Dennis, Perranporth, Wadebridge, Truro, Launceston, St Austell and Tolvaddon are at the farm at St Newlyn East after calls were received at 07:17 GMT, said Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service.

A 164ft (50m) cordon is in place and a road near the farm has been closed.

A view fop the farm from distance. A mass of smoke is billowing into the sky. There are two fire engines and three emergency vehicles visible next to the cluster of farm buildings. There is a hedge and a road in the foreground and a field between the person taking the photo and the farm.St Dennis Community Fire Station

Drivers have been urged to take care because of smoke across the A30

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