Residents waking up Thursday on Staten Island, Queens and Sheepshead Bay in New York City could smell the smoke from a massive scrap yard fire in Falls Township.
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According to New York City Emergency Management officials, the smell of smoke from the blaze that burned from Wednesday night into Thursday morning wafted up toward the city overnight.
The fire was dispatched around 9:15 p.m. Wednesday night at SIMS Metal Management on the old U.S. Steel site and ended up reaching the equivalent of two-alarms with fire trucks from around Lower Bucks County arriving on the scene. Tanker trucks filled with water were called from all around the county.
The fire took about six hours to get under control and firefighters left the scene at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, Falls Township Fire Company Chief Steve Lowden said.
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The scrap pile, according Lowden, included all kinds of metal of varying sizes.
Workers from SIMS used cranes to remove pieces of debris from the burning scrap pile so firefighters could spray them down.
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No injuries were reported, Lowden said.
This isn’t the first major scrap yard fire at SIMS’ property. In 2012, a large fire burnt through a scrap pile, sending thick black smoke and embers into the sky.
