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UPDATE:<\/strong> The City of Tyler said on Friday that curbside recycling will be paused beginning June 17 until further notice and accounts will not be charged for the duration of the pause. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Rivers Recycling was the current material recovery facility used by the City of Tyler to accept and repurpose curbside recycled materials,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d city officials said.<\/p>\n After Wednesday night\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s massive fire in Kilgore, officials explained that the flames are still burning and will continue to burn for the next five to seven days according to reporting by KETK. The fire broke out at Rivers Recycling just north of Kilgore, near Interstate 20 on FM 1252. The flames broke out Wednesday evening around 6 p.m. after everyone at the site had left for the day. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No workers or anybody was present when we were out. Tremendous amount of fire load in the building because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a recycling plant, so they have a lot of cardboard, plastics,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Kilgore Fire Marshal Ryan Riley said.<\/p>\n First responders from five different departments showed up to fight the intense flames. Working hard to keep it from spreading.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The fire is contained inside the structure itself. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not much danger of anything outside of the area catching on fire, so we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not really concerned about that,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Riley said.<\/p>\n Crews will be monitoring the burn for the next several days.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We still have visible in the flames in the building, but you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re still looking possibly at 5-7 days of actual fire burning in the building,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Riley said.<\/p>\n The fire poses a different challenge for first responders, as crews are avoiding the use of water because of the potential negative impact it could have on the environment.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Water goes right into your creeks and streams so you have to be conscious of that when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re looking at suppressing fires like this,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Riley said. The City of Longview takes its recyclable items to Rivers Recycling, so it is on hold until further notice. Still, homeowners can still leave their trash at the curb.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153For now we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re just taking all recycling along with trash to the landfill,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Richard Yeakley, City Of Longview public information officer, said.<\/p>\n Kilgore Fire explained that at this time, areas near the fire are not in harms way.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153At this time we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think there is any danger to the community or local areas,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Riley said.<\/p>\n Riley added that they cannot start an internal investigation until the fire is completely out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KILGORE \u00e2\u20ac\u201c UPDATE: The City of Tyler said on Friday that curbside recycling will be paused beginning June 17 until further notice and accounts will not be charged for the duration of the pause. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Rivers Recycling was the current material recovery facility used by the City of Tyler to accept and repurpose curbside recycled materials,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d … Continue reading Kilgore recycle center fire could burn for days<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1330786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/06\/firefighters-1-225x149.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Kilgore fire could burn for 7 days","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1330785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 06:02:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/06\/firefighters-1-225x149.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Kilgore fire could burn for 7 days","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1330785"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1331280,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330785\/revisions\/1331280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1330786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1330785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1330785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1330785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSabine River flooding still impacting areas in East Texas<\/p>\n