Fire at Recycling Facility in Santa Clara
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (KCBS) Santa Clara fire officials are investigating a two-alarm fire that broke out at a recycling facility on Sunday afternoon.
Santa Clara Fire Chief Augie Wiedermann said there have been no reported injuries in the blaze at 1440 Norman Avenue.
"There's been no reported injuries at this time," said Wiedermann. "We had a plastic recycling plant that recycles two-liter bottles, water bottles, packing peanut type material. The fire was out into the rear of the structure, so we didn't have any main buildings that caught fire. It was just the recycling items themselves that were burning."
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A shelter-in-place warning was issued, but lifted after about a half-hour.
Wiedermann said crews spent most of the afternoon mopping up and breaking up the melted plastic, making sure that all the fire is out so they have no rekindles of it.
