Massive fire rips through Elyria-area car junkyard, recycling plant

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – Crews in Lorain County have been dispatched to a “massive hearth” at a automotive junkyard on Friday morning.

The hearth was first reported after 11 a.m., in line with Lorain County dispatchers, on the Butternut Auto & Recycling plant on Butternut Ridge Highway in Carlisle Township.

An excavator operator, in line with Lt Robert Van Sant of the Lorain County Sheriffs workplace, believes his gear struck a battery and began the fireplace.

Thick, black smoke billowed from the fireplace for hours, smoke that might be seen as distant as downtown Cleveland.

“You have got a variety of flamable supplies, flamable liquids when it comes to gasoline tanks and this can be a deep seated hearth,” mentioned Eaton Township Assistant Chief Kevin Blair, “There’s not a detailed hydrant so you possibly can see we’re working a water shuttle operation, we have now 9 tankers going and we’re rotating hearth fighters out and in for publicity safety.”

Blair anticipated the fireplace to burn after which smolder for fairly a while earlier than heavy gear might be introduced in to begin digging into the pile to verify the fireplace was full extinguished.

“It’s a multitude. That’s one of the simplest ways to place it,” he mentioned,

An agricultural airplane was getting used to assist extinguish the fireplace from above.

Heavy, black smoke might be seen from surrounding communities because it billowed from the fireplace scene.

There haven’t been any important accidents reported presently.

It is a growing story.

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