As the site of Sunday night’s tyre fire continues to smoulder in Eglinton, it’s emerged that the depot was under investigation for allegedly storing tyres illegally.

The site, which was sub-let, was not licensed to store a large number of tyres, but it’s now emerged that half a million tyres were being stored there.

Police are treating the blaze as arson after fire fighters confirmed they found four separate fires blazing across the one-acre site when they arrived at the scene on Sunday night.