Milwaukee firefighters battled a massive, three-alarm fire at Roz Auto Salvage, reports Fox 6 Milwaukee.
The fire caused significant damage to one building on the salvage yard, and some vehicles outside of it. The roof of the affected building collapsed, but no one was injured.
Milwaukee Fire Department Assistant Chief Dan Lipski says firefighters were called to the scene shortly before noon, and found a building heavily involved in fire.
Fire crews were first called out to the scene after someone smelled gas. Lipski says someone yelled “fire” and encouraged everyone inside the auto salvage yard to get out.
It is unclear how many people were inside, but the auto salvage yard was was open and occupied.
The fire was quickly upgraded to a third alarm due to the volume of the fire, and the reports of explosions in and around the building.
Lipski says there were explosions being heard as crews battled the fire — but says the very heavy volume of fire and thick black smoke prevented fire crews from figuring out what was exploding — “but I think we can all make some educated guesses that if you have an auto scrap yard — they probably have cutting torches or propane and gasoline tanks,” Lipski said.
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