Warehouse fire in Brisbane’s Hemmant industrial precinct expected to burn for days, giving neighbours a nervous wait

The massive fire at a recycling warehouse that sent dark plumes of smoke over Brisbane’s rush-hour traffic yesterday is expected to keep burning for days.

More than 20,000 cubic metres of compressed cardboard was burned and the building’s roof collapsed.

Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES) Acting Superintendent Tim Clark said crews had fought the fire at Hemmant in Brisbane’s east for about four hours but had been unable to access parts of the collapsed building.

“We are doing our best to extinguish it as quickly as possible but it’s really hard to determine what the timeframe will be,” he said.

Brendan Neinert from the business next door, Thermofreeze, was not expecting to get much sleep overnight, knowing the fire was still…