Second fire at Mason City Recycling Center

(ABC 6 News) – A fire broke out at the Mason City Recycling Center on Saturday, just two weeks after another fire occurred at the same location, which continued smoldering for days.

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Mason City Fire Department (MCFD) was dispatched to the second fire at 12:16 p.m. on Saturday.

MCFD says a pile of old tires outside the building caught on fire from cardboard that still had smoldering embers from the previous fire.

The fire has since been extinguished.