CLEARFIELD, Utah—
Fire crews extinguished a trash fire at a recycling center in Clearfield Tuesday afternoon.
The fire originated just before 2:00 p.m. at Clearfield Recycling, 96 West 1700 South. A junk car brought to the facility was said to have sparked the blaze, which spread to a large pile of trash.
Employees say they were moving a car body past the pile of trash when something from the car sparked the fire.Four area fire agencies responded and came at the blaze with aerial ladder trucks spraying down 1000 gallons of water a minute from above.
North Davis Fire Chief Roger Bodily says the the difficulty was getting at the heat source, so they had to use a backhoe to pull crumpled metal and parts off the pile.
Although no one was hurt, fire fighters were concerned about the heat intensified by heavy gear they wear and the radiating effect of the metal trash.
"The gear that we wear in and of itself can overheat a firefighter rather quickly and then you put the physical exertion, plus the temperature, even though we got a little breeze going, it can get pretty hot really fast with the type of equipment we use," Bodily says.
No businesses were threatened by the blaze.
Clearfield Recycling processes about 700 tons of metal each month.
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