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Firefighters return to fire
Published May 26, 2009
An inferno at Crown Recycling kept firefighters busy over the weekend.
On Saturday, dozens of firefighters from the Val Verde County Rural Volunteer Fire Department, Del Rio Fire and Rescue Department, Laughlin Air Force Base Fire Department and Kinney County Fire Rescue Department responded to Crown Recycling on Hamilton Lane.
The fire sent smoke, which was visible from areas near Amistad Lake, billowing into the air and settling onto an area of Val Verde Park Estates, making driving on streets Saturday difficult in some areas at the rear of the subdivision.
The fire, which started around 3 p.m., also caused the closure of Hamilton Lane, a road connecting U.S. Highway 90 to Spur 377, for several hours while water hoses were sprawled across the roadway from hydrants to fire engines.
Around 8 p.m. the fire was controlled to the point that some departments were able to leave, but Val Verde County firefighters remained at the blaze until around 8 a.m. Sunday.
They were called into action again around 1 p.m. Sunday when smoldering embers ignited the blaze a second time.
Firefighters from the county department spent less than an hour at the blaze Sunday, and returned on a few occasions to extinguish flare-ups, said county fire chief Jerry Rust this morning.
Both fires occurred in an area of the recycling center where cut plastics and bundled cardboard are stored for shipment.
Crown Recycling owner Shawn King, who worked alongside firefighters manning a forklift and pulling debris away from the blaze, said he was not sure what originally started the blaze.
He said the business was open Saturday, but that employees were in another part of the center where aluminum cans are accepted when the fire started.
Rust said his department also tackled a fire in Escondido Estates, a sparsely populated area east of Laughlin Air Force Base, during the holiday weekend.
He said that fire, which is believed to be caused by lightning, destroyed an out building around 2 a.m.
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