A large fire at an industrial recycling facility in Salt Lake is going to be “a very long drawn out firefighting process,” according to Salt Lake Fire Capt. Brandt Hancuff.
Crews received a call at about 5 a.m. for a fire at Metro Group Inc.’s Salt Lake recycling center at 3050 W. 900 South. “A large amount” of cars waiting to be recycled, stacked on top of each other had ignited, Hancuff said. “We’re looking about 1 acre wide by about 100 feet tall of recycled cars that ignited.”
“It’s a huge acreage as far as their property goes,” he said…