HOUSTON – Firefighters are looking into what led up to an immense blaze at a northeast Houston recycling center Wednesday night.
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It happened a little after 11 p.m. when the Houston Fire Department got a call to the back of Derichebourg Recycling USA on Wallisville near Wayside Dr. Responding crews said they found “two football fields worth of rubber products” piled up and fully engulfed in flames.
HFD District Chief Campbell said crews were able to contain the fire to the recycling center, so it would not pose a threat to the community. The fire was so intense though, he said, that flames were more than 40-50 feet in the air at times, prompting between 60 - 80 firefighters to respond and extinguish the blaze.
It would be about 2.5 hours, fire officials say, before significant headway was made on the scene, however, embers were still being extinguished throughout the night.
It’s unclear what caused the blaze, but an investigation remains underway.