The BAAQMD had received 47 air-pollution complaints as of 3 p.m. Thursday.
The fire was reported around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in a large debris pile at Radius Recycling, located at 1101 Embarcadero West. The company was formerly known as Schnitzer Steel.
Heavy-equipment operators at the metal-recycling facility helped pull apart the pile so that firefighters could extinguish the blaze. The fire was under control around 9 p.m. Wednesday, but firefighters did not clear the scene until Thursday afternoon. Bowron credited firefighters for working “through the night” to extinguish the fire and also thanked the San Francisco and Alameda fire departments for lending their fire boats.
Heavy smoke from the blaze triggered an advisory from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District. Residents were urged to stay inside with windows and doors closed until smoke levels subsided. In a news release Thursday morning, the district said the blaze “started in a scrap metal pile containing aluminum, tin, light iron and steel.” Both the district and Oakland Fire said the cause of the fire remains under investigation. No injuries were reported.
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