Firefighters spent Wednesday afternoon battling a large tire fire that they believe might have been intentionally set.
It happened at a tire recycling business on Highway 472 in Laurel County and took about two hours to get the fire under control.
The emergency management director said the business was closed Wednesday so they are calling it a suspicious fire.
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“We don’t know how it started at this point but there is no wildfires around that would have caused it, there aren’t any storms so lightning can’t do it. So at this time it is a suspicious fire,” Albert Hale of Laurel County Emergency Management said.
The fire was so massive at one point the smoke could be seen from neighboring counties.
