{"id":1108,"date":"2011-07-28T07:57:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T07:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mikegreener.com\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2011-07-28T07:57:36","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T07:57:36","slug":"photographing-the-big-blaze-macro-plastics-container-fire-in-fairfield-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikegreener.com\/2011\/07\/photographing-the-big-blaze-macro-plastics-container-fire-in-fairfield-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographing the Big Blaze &#8211; Macro Plastics container fire in Fairfield, CA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday went from a pretty lax assignment day to a full on spot news intensity over a six alarm fire at a plastic factory in Fairfield, California. I wasn&#8217;t thinking much about it as I made my way out towards Travis Air Force Base. Nine times out of ten fires around here are small or just smoke from a faulty kitchen appliance. As I made the turn off of Texas Street and headed down Air Base Parkway in Fairfield I immediately saw that this was no ordinary fire. I saw a huge towering cloud of black smoke billowing on the horizon. I&#8217;ve never seen a fire so big. I arrived at the scene to see fire crews from Fairfield and surrounding agencies working to put out a massive blaze that was burning stacks of polypropleyne packing bins at Macro Plastics, a local plastic factory located in an industrial area near Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield. It literally blocked out the sun and bore an eerie resemblance to the pictures I saw of burning oil fields inIraq during Desert Storm. I was at the scene for over three hours as emergency crews tried to the contain the blaze. There wasn&#8217;t a whole lot that they could do. Here are some of the photos I made during my coverage of the fire. You can read the whole story of the blaze on the <a title=\"Daily Republic newspaper website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyrepublic.com\/featured-stories\/huge-plastics-fire-casts-black-cloud-over-fairfield-travis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Republic&#8217;s website here<\/a>. Crazy day. -M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday went from a pretty lax assignment day to a full on spot news intensity over a six alarm fire at a plastic factory in Fairfield, California. I wasn&#8217;t thinking much about it as I made my way out towards Travis Air Force Base. 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