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we have team coverage tonight on the fire and its impact on the community including a shelter in place order that lasted for five hours. we begin with ktvu s jana katsuyama who s live at the plastics yard where the fire raged all afternoon, jana. reporter: and frank we pulled up right to this yellow line so we can show you what s going on right now. there is a fire ladder truck that s back there. that s because in the last few hours there was another flair up. they ve been having these periodically. we understand there s an island of unburned bins. we understand that they are going in with a forklift to try to break those bins apart. it appears to have been employees who were working in the area. the smoke rose in a black column that could be seen from fairfield to sacramento. huge stacks of agriculture bins had caught fire outside the macro plastic plant. it does appear we had employees working with an open flame object, whether that be a blow torch. it s a hydrocarbon
lasted for five hours. we begin with ktvu s jana katsuyama who s live at the plastics yard where the fire raged all afternoon, jana. reporter: and frank we pulled up right to this yellow line so we can show you what s going on right now. there is a fire ladder truck that s back there. that s because in the last few hours there was another flair up. they ve been having these periodically. we understand there s an island of unburned bins. we understand that they are going in with a forklift to try to break those bins apart. it appears to have been employees who were working in the area. the smoke rose in a black column that could be seen from fairfield to sacramento. huge stacks of agriculture bins had caught fire outside the macro plastic plant. it does appear we had employees working with an open flame object, whether that be a blow torch. it s a hydrocarbon based material. it s the same official as if you were seeing a tire fire. very thick black smoke. reporter: fir