(FOX40.COM) — Officials in Turlock encourage local residents to remain indoors as hazardous smoke billows from a large tire fire at a recycling facility.
The Merced County Fire Department is responding to the fire in the 13000 block of Newport Road in Ballico, the site of American Tire Recycling, LLC. The small community is located in northern Merced County, just a few miles southeast of Turlock.
Photos shared by the Turlock Fire Department show a large black plume of smoke rising above the Central Valley landscape.
The fire is expected to keep burning “for some time,” Turlock fire said in a social media post Monday afternoon, citing the materials involved in the blaze…