Fire breaks out in large Big Island recycling warehouse

[TexasTowelie]

Hawaii County firefighters battled an early morning fire inside a 36,000-square-foot recycling company warehouse in Keaau, and finally putting it out after 5 1/2 hours.

The Hawaii County Fire Department got the first alarm at 1:06 a.m. and were on scene at 1:13 a.m.

The private recycler located at Kipimana Street in Shipman Industrial Park had the large warehouse half full of compressed recycling bales of cardboard, paper and plastics, which were stacked up to 16 feet high.

Fire was burning in several locations, the fire department said.

Read more: http://www.staradvertiser.com/2018/07/10/breaking-news/fire-breaks-out-in-large-big-island-recycling-warehouse/

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

1. Interesting. Hope everyones ok.

Seems I recall, (and I may be wrong....I'm human, and it's wed.) but one of the fall-outs from dts trade war was China wasn't buying the recycled plastics etc anymore. That's a fast emergency response!

[appleannie1943]

2. They are investigating it as arson.