A huge fire has taken hold at a premises within Bellshill Industrial Estate this morning.
It is understood four fire appliances are currently on the scene at the Trade Be Healthcare waste facility unit on the estate.
No-one has been reported as injured at this time.
Motorists on the M74 reported seeing plumes of smoke fill the sky as they made their early morning journeys.
Others watched on from their homes in Bellshill, Uddingston, Chapelhall and as far as Hamilton, as a thick plume of black smoke arose.
Workers at the nearby Righead Industrial Estate also reported hearing emergency services race to the scene just across the motorway. And staff within the Bellshill Industrial Estate looked on in horror as the fire took hold.
Householders in the area have posted on social media that ash is currently falling from the sky onto cars and into gardens.
A spokesperson for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said: "We were alerted at 8.11am to reports of a building on fire at Mossbell Road, Bellshill.
"Operations Control mobilised four appliances to the scene where a fire is affecting an industrial unit.
"There are no reported casualties at this time and crews are currently still in attendance."
Photographs taken this morning show some houses nearby being engulfed in smoke as the fire crews battle the inferno.
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