Jacksonville firefighters battled a massive fire for hours Tuesday at a Northside recycling facility that focuses on vehicle tires.
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“When this rubber gets going, it’s very difficult to put out. You can put copious amounts of water on it, but it burns deep and it retains that heat,” Prosswimmer said. “It burns very hot and produces a lot of dark black smoke so anybody driving by who sees dark black smoke, that’s what it is.”“The issue that we’re dealing with right now is that we’ve been very fortunate with the winds. It’s not a very windy day,” Prosswimmer said, adding that no evacuations are planned at this time.
“We definitely want to stay on top of what’s happening with it just to make sure nobody is impacted around,” said City Councilman Mike Gay, who represents the area and was out at the scene Tuesday morning. “There are some homes to the east of it, so it’s really being alert, everybody staying tuned in to what’s going on for any kind of emergency alert.
The area that was burning was a rubbish pile about 200 feet by 300 feet , and when the fire started it was 30 feet high.
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