Fire extinguished at waste facility in Englewood

No injuries reported

BY TAYLER SHAW TSHAW@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A re in Englewood that occurred April 11 at a WM, formerly known as Waste Management, site at 2400 W. Union Ave. has been put out, said JD Chism, a captain and public information o cer for the Denver Fire Department.

Chism said the re department received its rst call about the re at 2:03 p.m., and the re was put out by 3:02 p.m. It is currently not known what caused the re.

When asked if there were any injuries as a result of the re, Chism said a couple of people were evaluated for smoke inhalation but no one chose to be transported to a hospital.

Chism said he was not sure how large the re was, but that the re department only had to send one rig to respond to the re.

He said he did not see any reports of any additional damage or exposures caused by the re.

In an email the following day, Chism said this was the third re at 2400 W. Union Ave. since last April.

“All those res have been listed as undetermined for cause,” Chism wrote. “As you would imagine in a large waste facility like that there are so many di erent potential ignition sources with a huge re load.”

One of those three res was an overnight re that began June 27, 2022, and burned an estimated 1,000 tons of trash and roughly 100 tons of recycling. WM of Colorado shared recommendations on how to keep trash from becoming a re hazard, including never putting hot, hazardous or highly combustible items in any trash or recycling carts. ose interested in learning more about household hazardous waste and where to dispose of materials can visit: wm.com/us/en/home/ common-hazardous-waste.