Thick black smoke billowed over the Antelope Valley Thursday as roughly 1,500 crushed automobiles burned at a recycling yard, in keeping with the Los Angeles County Fireplace Division.
The Sheriff’s Division confirmed that by 7 p.m. the hearth had been contained.
A automobile crusher malfunction sparked a fireplace that consumed 10 acres of the 20-acre facility, stated Capt. Sheila Kelliher-Berkoh of the L.A. County Fireplace Division. No accidents had been reported.
The fireplace broke out on the facility on West Avenue H-8 at North Sierra Freeway in Lancaster at round 3:30 p.m., in keeping with native media stories. A 3rd alarm, or request for added sources, was requested, a division spokesperson informed The Instances, and the power was evacuated.
On the top of the hearth, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division’s Lancaster station issued a shelter-in-place order for the neighborhood between Division Avenue and Challenger Manner north of Avenue I.
A video posted on X earlier within the day confirmed an enormous cloud of black smoke blocking out the sky.
Air testing didn’t discover ranges of chemical substances that would pose a menace to the well being of close by residents, Kelliher-Berkoh stated.
