JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department will be keeping watch through the night on a fire that sparked Monday afternoon at a cardboard recycling plant on West Beaver Street.<\/p>\n
Crews with JFRD could be observed on the First Alert Weather Sky Cam<\/a>s spraying water on the fire around 4:45 p.m. Monday.<\/p>\n >>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n The fire started in the main production building of the recycling plant and was reported to JFRD at 4:15 p.m.<\/p>\n The heavy fire started spreading due to the wind and multiple ladders were needed to put out the flames.<\/p>\n About 99% of the paper products at the plant burned.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n At this time, the equipment at the plant is not believed to be the cause of the fire, JFRD said.<\/p>\n JFRD said there were between 5 to 10 employees at the plant at the time of the fire, and no injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n JFRD said just before 6 p.m. that the situation would be under control soon and the area would be blocked off until midnight.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department will be keeping watch through the night on a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[344,347,28,348,116,28116,351,118,117,349,72205,72204,350,346,345],"class_list":{"0":"post-150355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-action-news-jax","9":"tag-cbs47","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-fox30","12":"tag-jacksonville","13":"tag-jacksonville-fire-and-rescue-department","14":"tag-jacksonville-fl","15":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","16":"tag-jacksonville-news","17":"tag-northeast-florida","18":"tag-recycling-plant-fire-jacksonville-fl","19":"tag-recycling-plant-jacksonville-fl","20":"tag-southeast-georgia","21":"tag-wfox","22":"tag-wjax"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}