A massive blaze at a lumberyard shot flames into the air that could be seen by morning commuters as they headed through the Jackson Curve east of downtown Kansas City Tuesday.
Firefighters responded to the blaze around 6:15 a.m. at the Central Missouri Reload Inc. lumberyard, 3900 E. 14th Terrace, said Battalion Chief Michael Hopkins, a spokesman for the Kansas City Fire Department.
The first crews to arrive found a large outbuilding, where stacks of lumber that had come off the rail yard were fully engulfed in flames, Hopkins said.
Firefighters took an immediate defensive attack due to the size of the blaze and sprayed large streams of water from multiple aerial trucks to bring the fire under control, Hopkins said. The fire was brought under control shortly before 9 a.m…