CANTON — It’s hardly worth its weight in gold, but the giant heap of junk growing behind the city’s service center does have some real value. “We’ll find out how much,” said Canton Service Director ...

EAST CHICAGO | A scrap metal fire belched thick, black smoke into the sky, keeping East Chicago firefighters on the scene for more than three hours Wednesday. Engine crews, dispatched at 6:03 p.m. to ...

SPRINGFIELD — A major fire that took hours to extinguish and polluted nearby residential neighborhoods with clouds of thick ...

DURHAM — All the way from Lake Oroville, a massive plume of black smoke could be seen rising out of the Chico Scrap Metal lot on Monday as flames engulfed a mountain of scrap. Closer to the scene, ...

New Haven fire officials say a “decent-sized fire” is under control after igniting at the Alderman-Dow Iron & Metal Co.

A scrap metal pile caught fire Monday afternoon in southeast Colorado Springs, police said. Firefighters were attacking the blaze at at an EVRAZ Recycling facility, 2690 E. Las Vegas St., with "large ...

The city has about eight tons of scrap metal it doesn’t know what to do with. City officials received no bids from haulers willing to take the scrap away. Department of Public Works Supervisor Ray ...

A huge pile of scrap metal and other rubbish caught fire Wednesday morning at a recycling plant on Scenic Highway, sending plumes of black smoke billowing into the air as firefighters scrambled to ...

In a dusty scrap yard on Saginaw's West Side, the success of the federal "Cash for Clunkers" program is evident in the pile of gas guzzlers headed to a metal shredder. The Rifkin Scrap Iron and Metal ...