WATCH: Videos show heavy, black smoke during huge fire at Doral waste-to-energy plant
A four-alarm fire torched a waste-to-energy plant in Doral on Sunday — and videos captures by onlookers and nearby residents show the magnitude of the blaze.
At around 2:15 p.m., more than 50 fire rescue units rushed to Covanta Energy, 6990 NW 97th Ave., a Miami-Dade County-owned facility that specializes in burning waste to produce energy. There fire crews found heavy black smoke and fire coming from the structure.
By 9 p.m., hundreds of firefighters had joined in the efforts to contain the fire.
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For those wanting to know just how large of an area the fire burned, take a look at some footage from the scene:
Jorge Gimenez caught a glimpse of the fire’s tall, dark smoke from the intersection of Northwest 74th Street and Northwest 87th Avenue.
Incendio en el #Doral empezó have minutos - Planta de Covanta pic.twitter.com/UvdzSOofp6
— Jorge Gimenez (@JorgeGimeneVzla) February 12, 2023
Then he got closer to the facility.
— Jorge Gimenez (@JorgeGimeneVzla) February 12, 2023
“This can’t be good,” Twitter user @randomMIAgrl wrote as she observed the smoke nearby from a different vantage point.
Welp. The Covanta plant is on fire in Doral. That can’t be good. I know I saw @wsvn already on the scene when I passed by. pic.twitter.com/Lc4oq9Xuko
— Lourdes (@randomMIAgrl) February 12, 2023
Meanwhile, TV personality Jorge Bernal posted a drone video of the blaze.
Fire in Covanta Recycle Plant in Doral. #doral #covanta pic.twitter.com/Py5HEuQMHz
— Jorge Bernal (@JorgeBernal) February 12, 2023