LIVONIA (WWJ) Crews battled a large industrial fire involving 70 to 100 vehicles at a recycling center in Livonia early Friday morning, fire officials said.
WWJ’s Mike Campbell reported the flames broke out around 3:10 a.m. when a high voltage power line fell onto Padnos Recycling Center and scapyard on Stark near I-96.
Livonia Public Safety asked drivers to avoid the area. The fall of the line also knocked out power to the vicinity. As of 10 a.m. Friday morning, the power remains out.
While fire officials worried about hazardous materials on site; Livonia Deputy Fire Chief Wade Clay said the recycling center’s monitoring system averted any disaster.
“It was their monitoring systems that oversees the oil and the gas where they hold it after scrapping a car out,” Clay said. “They noticed the heat center of the line was down and the flames were really close to it, but with diligent and quick work of our crews, they got it out very quickly.”
Clay said no one was injured.