{"id":266752,"date":"2026-08-17T08:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T08:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266752\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T08:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T08:30:12","slug":"large-fire-breaks-out-at-buffalo-shredding-recovery-in-erie-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266752\/","title":{"rendered":"Large fire breaks out at Buffalo Shredding &#038; Recovery in Erie County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fdf25525-45ba-408e-a920-6626eb2eedf9_750x422-RVt8nG-300x169.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-1296704\" alt=\"\"   loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A large fire broke out Friday afternoon off Route 5 in the Woodlawn area, just south of Buffalo, at Metalico Buffalo Shredding &amp; Recovery. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 2 On Your Side photojournalist at the scene said the fire involved a large pile of garbage on the former Republic Steel property at 3175 Lake Shore Rd. in Blasdell. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to its website, Buffalo Shredding &amp; Recovery is a \u201cfull-service scrap metal processing facility,\u201d and has been in operation since December 2011.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Firefighters brought the fire under control quickly after large plumes of smoke were seen from afar. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seneca Hose Company #1 said on social media that Seneca Hose Rescue 5 was on scene as the FAST team for a \u201clarge scrap metal fire\u201d at Metallico on Route 5 in Hamburg. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authorities have not released details on what sparked the fire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cause remains under investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>WGRZ-TV NBC 2 Buffalo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large fire broke out Friday afternoon off Route 5 in the Woodlawn area, just south of Buffalo,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,8338,237],"class_list":["post-266752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-mid-atlantic-region","tag-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}