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CDF: Recycling Facility Fire Started On Pile Of Recyclables

Columbus fire officials say the four-alarm fire at a south side recycling facility earlier this month started as a small burn on top of a pile of recyclables. Investigators say dry weather and intense sunlight may have sparked the blaze the caused 600 thousand dollars damage to the WestRock Recycling facility on Marion Road. But the official cause of the fire is still under investigation.
 

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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