INDIANAPOLIS — A fire broke out at a recycling facility south of downtown Indianapolis Monday evening.

Firefighters arrived at OmniSource on South West Street just before 4:00 to find a pile of tires on fire, with heavy black smoke visible from downtown.

“It was a pile of tires inside the facility set in an area away from any buildings,” Indianapolis Fire Department Battalion Chief Rita Reith said. “There was no extension into anything.”

Reith says firefighters had the fire put out in about 25 minutes.

“Anytime you have a pile of scrap or tires, you have to bring in additional equipment,” Reith said.

That’s exactly what firefighters did in this case. Reith says crews brought a crane so that they can separate the pile, so they could put water onto the material that is underneath the bo

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