Industrial fire linked to fish and eels' deaths
Chemicals from firewater runoff entered a brook and spread downstream where dead fish and eels were later found, the Environment Agency has confirmed.
BBC News reports: Chemicals from firewater runoff entered a brook and spread downstream where dead fish and eels were later found, the Environment Agency has confirmed.
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