Drivers had to put on their headlights when a dense fog of bonfire smoke enveloped the three-way junction of the London Road, Salisbury Road and George Lane for almost half an hour this morning (Wednesday).
Huge of plumes of smoke came from a back garden bonfire in Van Diemans Close, off Cherry Orchard, before Marlborough Fire Brigade arrived to bring the bonfire under control.
“It was just an ordinary bonfire until the cold air conditions suddenly created the smoke,” Kit Watson, watch manager at the fire station, told Marlborough News Online. “It made it look all the more dramatic than it actually was, but traffic couldn’t see the junction at one point.”
The bonfire began just after 10 am, it was almost half an hour before the clouds of smoke finally cleared and sunshine burst through again.
“It was just like a sudden fog descending on Marlborough,” Sophie Waite told Marlborough News Online. “You couldn’t see across the road from Salisbury Road to the petrol station on the other side.
“Cars and lorries had to put on their lights to see where they were going until it cleared away.”
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