Firefighters spent late Saturday and early Sunday battling a “suspicious” industrial yard fire in Colorado City, Ariz.
The blaze ignited about 9 p.m., according to fire officials. Photos and video posted to Facebook from residents across the community on the Utah-Arizona line show flames jumping into the air. Video taken about 12 hours later shows a pile of tires still smoldering in an industrial yard.
Tires burn Dec. 31, 2017, in an industrial lot in Colorado City, Ariz. Photo courtesy Terrill Musser.
The fire’s origin was “suspicious,” according to a fire official for Colorado City and adjacent Hildale, Utah.
“There is no activity around there that would spark it,” said Fire Chief Kevin Barlow. “We’re trying to see if we can track down who started it.”
Instead of extinguishing the blaze, firefighters prevented its spread and monitored the flames Sunday morning.
“It’ll probably still smolder throughout the day,” Barlow said Sunday afternoon.
— Editor Nick Parker contributed to this report.
