Overnight fire erupts at north Houston recycling center (Copyright 2025 by KPRC Click2Houston – All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n
HOUSTON<\/strong> \u2013 Firefighters had their hands full battling a fire at a recycling facility in north Houston.<\/p>\n That facility is located on Quitman Street near the Eastex Freeway.<\/p>\n When firefighters arrived just before midnight, they found a metal pile on fire.<\/p>\n Firefighters say metal tanks at the facility were causing the fire to react and flare up. They say they contain magnesium.<\/p>\n It took firefighters about two hours to get the bulk of it under control once they were able to spread out the metal and douse it with dry chemicals.<\/p>\n No cause of the fire has been released, and no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n Breaking News Alerts<\/p>\n Stay on top of breaking news as it happens by signing up for our alerts.\n<\/p>\n Copyright 2025 by KPRC Click2Houston – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Overnight fire erupts at north Houston recycling center (Copyright 2025 by KPRC Click2Houston – All rights reserved.) HOUSTON…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":176782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[6526,4345,16300,16116,981,57615,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-176781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-firefighters","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-fire-department","11":"tag-magnesium","12":"tag-metal","13":"tag-recycling-center","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115094622536055668","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}