Salt Lake City, Utah Recycling Center Catches Fire

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Several large bales of plastic fueled a three-alarm fire Wednesday afternoon at a recycling center.

Fire officials were trying to get equipment into the BFI Recycling Center to break up the bales.

No injuries were immediately reported.

The center was in a remote area, and no homes were threatened.

It's the third major fire in the city in recent weeks. On July 16, a $5.5 million, six-alarm fire destroyed giant rolls of paper at a South Salt Lake warehouse. The fire at the Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. was arson, investigators said.

A four-alarm blaze on July 23 completely gutted Jeffrey Cobabe and Associates, a fine furniture maker that provides, among other things, furnishings for Mormon temples worldwide.