Fire burning at the Sims Metal Recycling Plant in Redwood City

A fire at the Sims Metal Recycling Plant on Wednesday produced a large black smoke cloud that is drifting south from Redwood City.
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[@shane5385]

I can smell it in south san jose

[@jmassachiCA]

They should of been processing these metal scraps but they let it sit there until now where their cranes are in a rush to move the blazing hot metals up into the conveyor. What are they thinking?

[@fixedit8689]

Isn’t there a Sims metal fire once a year somewhere?

[@IOSARBX]

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[@jmassachiCA]

How does the building structure catch fire if the wind and smoke are obviously going the other way?

[@wrxsubaru02]

Heat.

[@birby2120]

As it turns out, fire is hot

[@tonitomei6323]

Is that a trick question???

[@MikesSteelYard]

Insurance fraud

[@jmassachiCA]

@@tonitomei6323 No

[@Arid379]

Every one is having incidents

[@MikesSteelYard]

All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

[@catherinepoloynis]

Maybe someone recycled a big chunk of sodium metal. Foam might be more effective on that.

[@rockbottomrhythm_blues]

What an absolute horror-show.

[@johnward1191]

Repeated air polluting fires at Sims in Redwood City. Why doesn't the city shut them down already?