Wrecking yard fire burns piles of cars in Kent, WA

Wrecking yard fire burns in Kent, WA

What we know:

KENT, Wash. - The fire involves multiple rows of cars at a wrecking yard in the 26200 block of 78th Ave. S. in Kent, according to updates shared by Puget Sound Fire on X.

"These cars are stacked 10 feet high, and it's row after row after row, and then the next row starts of cars, and so there's no way to get in between them safely," Pat Pawlak, Division Chief Public Information Officer for Puget Sound Fire said.

Efforts to suppress the fire continued into the day on Sunday, with crews utilizing heavy equipment to dismantle piles of cars to aid in extinguishing the flames.

"Once we had the flames knocked down and we could safely do so, a member of the company used heavy equipment to pick the cars up so we could make sure that the car was fully extinguished," Pawlak said. "He'd set it aside, pick up the next one, so on and so forth."

He told FOX 13, hazmat crews and representatives from the Department of Ecology were also on hand.

As of the latest reports, no injuries have been reported.

Nobody was hurt in a wrecking yard fire that burned rows of piles of cars Sunday in Kent, Washington. (Puget Sound Fire)

What we don't know:

It's unclear what caused the fire and the full extent of the damage is still not yet known.

"When you start looking at a fire in this type of a business, you have to think about, is there going to be any type of hazardous materials, you know, gasoline products, things like that that might be leaking, and we're using a lot of water, so we were also very conscious of making sure of any environmental impact," Pawlak said

The Source: Information and video in this story comes from Puget Sound Fire.