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Salt Lake City Fire Department crews battle a blaze at Western Metals Recycling near 4400 west and 700 south Aug. 27, 2008. The fire burned wooden pallets and some old cars and no injuries were reported.
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Utah - Several small fires at a metal recycling plant erupted into a huge cloud of thick black smoke on Salt Lake City's west side Thursday morning.
At about 9:45 a.m. an explosion caused power lines to arc and throw sparks onto the lot, igniting fires in old cars, garbage and pallets at Western Metal Recycling, 4221 W. 700 South, said Salt Lake City Fire Department spokesman Scott Freitag
Firefighters don't know what caused the initial explosion.