Glendale firefighters help battle blaze at recycling center near Atwater Village

Firefighters battle a fire that broke out at a recycling facility near Glendale near the 134 and 5 freeways on Friday. Glendale firefighters are helping their Los Angeles counterparts battle the blaze.

Los Angeles Times

Nov. 1, 2019 6:58 PM PT

Los Angeles firefighters are battling a fire at a recycling facility near Atwater Village.

The fire, whose smoke could be seen for miles, broke out Friday afternoon at a construction and demolition recycling facility at 4560 W. Doran St. The Los Angeles Fire Department said no structures are currently threatened by the fire.

The blaze is near Interstate 5 and the 134 Freeway.

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Kim Christensen

Kim Christensen is a former investigative reporter on the Los Angeles Times’ projects team. He has more than 30 years of experience in newspapers, starting with the Dayton Daily News in his hometown in Ohio. He has shared two Pulitzer Prizes, at the Oregonian in 2001 and at the Orange County Register in 1996, for investigations of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service and of fertility fraud at UC Irvine. He joined The Times in 2005 and left in 2022.