{"id":217858,"date":"2026-03-13T08:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/217858\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T08:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:15:09","slug":"firefighters-contain-blaze-at-oakland-recycling-facility-east-bay-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/217858\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters contain blaze at Oakland recycling facility \u2013 East Bay Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLAND \u2014 A fire on a conveyor belt at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastbaytimes.com\/2026\/03\/08\/oakland-as-radius-recycling-schnitzer-steel\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">controversy-ridden West Oakland recycling plant<\/a> Wednesday morning sent clouds of dark smoke into the air but caused no injuries, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The fire started about 10 a.m. Wednesday at Radius Recycling, formerly known as Schnitzer Steel, at 1101 Embarcadero West.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was on a conveyor belt moving recyclable materials for shredding, fire officials said. The fire was kept to a single-alarm response and brought some 30 firefighters to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Fire department spokesman Michael Hunt said firefighters were aided by the facility\u2019s fire suppression system, which had already begun dousing the fire with water and foam before firefighters responded,<\/p>\n<p>Hunt said smoke from the fire dissipated quickly and there was no need for a hazardous materials response.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was declared under control at 10:49 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is under investigation. A damage figure was not available.<\/p>\n<p>There have been other fires over the years at the facility, which first opened in 1965, including a massive blaze in 2023 that prompted a civil lawsuit from environmentalists.<\/p>\n<p>The Oakland A\u2019s baseball team has also joined the fray in court and in the state legislature pushing for an environmental crackdown on the facility.<\/p>\n<p>It was rebranded as Radius Recycling in 2023 and was sold last year to a Japanese auto conglomerate for $1.3 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Staff writer Shomik Mukherjee contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND \u2014 A fire on a conveyor belt at a controversy-ridden West Oakland recycling plant Wednesday morning sent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,184,861,7,8,1531,138,332,1529,99545,181,100,143,145,144,385,14442],"class_list":["post-217858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-bay-area","tag-bay-area-crime","tag-california","tag-california-news","tag-crashes-and-disasters","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-east-bay","tag-east-bay-crime","tag-east-bay-fires","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-regional","tag-west-oakland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}