Crews have successfully extinguished the underground fire at the Stormwater Detention Facility in the back parking lot at Premium Outlets.

The outlet mall’s property owner, Simon Properties, hired a general contractor to begin removing material from the underground fire Tuesday night.

Firefighters think they may soon get the upper hand on a stubborn fire that’s been burning underground in a parking lot of the Williamsburg Premium Outlets for five days. As the smoke was thick and lingering in the area around the outlet mall,