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Spanish town residents ordered indoors in tire dump blaze

Associated Press
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    Four women walk with masks in front of billowing black smoke from a huge fire in Sesena, central Spain, Friday, May 13, 2016. A massive fire is raging at a sprawling tire dump in a town near Madrid, sending a spectacular cloud of thick black smoke into the air that's visible for at least 30 kilometers (20 miles). Ten teams of firefighters are trying to put out the blaze at the tire dump in the town of Sesena, still raging more than 10 hours after it started. (AP Photo/Paul White) (The Associated Press)

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    Billowing black smoke rises from behind large housing blocks in Sesena, central Spain, Friday, May 13, 2016. A massive fire is raging at a sprawling tire dump in a town near Madrid, sending a spectacular cloud of thick black smoke into the air that's visible for at least 30 kilometers (20 miles). Ten teams of firefighters are trying to put out the blaze at the tire dump in the town of Sesena, still raging more than 10 hours after it started. (AP Photo/Paul White) (The Associated Press)

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    A fire fighting helicopter flies billowing black smoke rising from behind large housing blocks in Sesena, central Spain, Friday, May 13, 2016. A massive fire is raging at a sprawling tire dump in a town near Madrid, sending a spectacular cloud of thick black smoke into the air that's visible for at least 30 kilometers (20 miles). Ten teams of firefighters are trying to put out the blaze at the tire dump in the town of Sesena, still raging more than 10 hours after it started. (AP Photo/Paul White) (The Associated Press)

MADRID – Authorities have ordered residents to stay indoors and shut windows in parts of a central Spanish town as a fire at a major tire dump spread a spectacular cloud of thick black smoke across an area south of Madrid.

Sesena town mayor Carlos Velazquez told Cadena Ser radio that residents in three districts had been asked to stay at home until the fire was extinguished and the smoke dispersed.

Police said classes at one school had been canceled. Authorities urged drivers on nearby roads to close their windows.

Velazquez said the fire appeared to have been started intentionally Friday.

Some 10 firefighter units were sent to extinguish the blaze at the dump located some 35 kilometers (22 miles) south of the capital.