 The tip first combusted in May 2015 and continued to catch fire up until December 2015, by which time firefighters from North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and Humberside had responded 385 times to the smouldering tip.In November 2015, local authorities, including Selby District Council, aided by North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service and the Environment Agency, started a clean-up effort intended to extinguish the fire.By January 2016, the contents were cleared and taken to a landfill site at Welbeck in West Yorkshire.