The alarm came in just after five in the morning, that it had started to burn at the end of a large pile of chips.

- They are ten meters high and fifty meters long, so there are huge amounts of wood chips.

We have two tankers and a fire truck on site, and are trying to dig out the piles together with staff at the recycling center to limit the fire, says Christer Lindau, rescue leader.

The rescue service expects that they will remain at the site for at least the entire morning, and the smell of smoke can spread all the way down over central Karlskrona.

- It is not dangerous, it is completely ordinary smoke, there are no plastics. But people can get worried if they smell it. I would think it disappears this morning.