Knoxville, TN (WOKI) The Knoxville Fire Department continues to investigate a large commercial fire happening overnight Thursday in North Knoxville.
Crews were called to the scene at the Fort Loudon Waste and Recycling facility on Hancock street around 10:30 for a fully-involved fire inside a large metal warehouse.
Fire investigators are still working to determine the cause of the blaze.
“We’ll take our time as we go in the building. Of course, our investigators will have to spend a considerable amount of time trying to figure out exactly how this fire started,” said Knoxville Fire Department Communications Officer Mark Wilbanks speaking with WOKI news partner, WVLT.
Wilbanks says the warehouse, the only one on the property, was “burned from one end of the building to the other.”
KFD reported the bulk of the fire was out by 12:30 Friday morning, and they were monitoring hot spots.
No injuries were reported.
The plant was also the site of a massive fire back in 2019, causing over 100 people living in the Oakwood-Lincoln Park neighborhood to be evacuated as that fire burned.
Anyone with information about Thursday’s fire can contact the department’s arson hotline anonymously at 865-637-1386.
