ATLANTA — Flames lit up the skies in southeast Atlanta early Thursday as a fire burned hundreds of pallets at two businesses next to each other.
Crews had their hands full working to put out the large fire on Sawtell Avenue SE.
They were dealing with piles of wooden pallets, some stacked 20 feet high.
Assistant Fire Chief Derek Hullender with Atlanta Fire Rescue told Channel 2’s Darryn Moore the businesses were loaded with lots of wood.
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“One is a pallet manufacturing company, the other is a pallet recycling company. So, they take old pallets and refurbish them,” Hullender said.
At first, crews had a difficult time getting fire hoses to the yard because the hydrants were not close to the businesses.
“One lay is about six to seven hundred feet, and the other was about a thousand,” Hullender said.
Crews used a ladder truck to contain and douse the flames.
Fire investigators are working to determine what caused the fire.
There were no injuries reported. Firefighter crews were hydrated, and no one suffered from heat exhaustion.
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