Around 100 firefighters are tackling a "severe" fire at a paper mill in Birmingham.
Thousands of tons of cardboard have been burning at the Smurfit Kappa plant in the Nechells area of the city.
No injuries have been reported.
People living near the plant were urged to stay indoors and keep their windows and doors shut because of the smoke and falling ash.
However, the material burning is not believed to be toxic.
Frank Turner, who lives nearby, told Sky News: "Last night you could feel the heat from the fire from some distance.
"It was raging. We could see the flames leaping into the air. There are fire crews all over the place."
The fire, which started just after 10pm on Wednesday night, is expected to take a couple of days to burn out, a fire service spokesman said.
He tweeted that the fire is "in a very large outdoor storage area. Approx 10,000 tons of recycled cardboard bales are ablaze.
"Fire is contained to storage area, high winds are hampering fire fighting, however crews and other agencies are working extremely hard to bring blaze under control."
A number of roads around the site in Mount Street have been closed off.
Smurfit Kappa is one of the leading producers of paper-based packaging in the world with more than 41,000 employees in 32 countries, the company's website says.
West Midlands Police said a helicopter was being used to see if it had spread to other parts of the industrial estate where the paper mill is located.
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