Lease Breaker: Massive Mare Island warehouse fire at former Navy

The Vallejo Fire Department confirmed a "massive" three-alarm warehouse fire on Mare Island shortly before midnight Thursday.

According to the department, the fire on the former Navy shipyard was a "commercial structure fire" at Alco Metal & Iron Company, a recycler at 629 Azuar Drive.

As late as 3 a.m. Friday, the department was asking residents to avoid the area.

The fire department responded almost exactly a year ago to a three-alarm fire in Alco's recycling yard on August 22, 2014, according to published reports at that time.

Mare Island was also the site of a large four-alarm fire in an abandoned barracks last August and a fire in 2005 that destroyed $200 million worth of wine and resulted in the conviction of an arsonist.

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CBRE: Massive Mare Island warehouse fire at former Navy shipyard; no injuries

Massive Mare Island warehouse fire at former Navy shipyard; no injuries

Associated Press

Posted:   08/21/2015 08:24:16 AM PDT0 Comments | Updated:   5 months ago

VALLEJO -- A fast-moving warehouse fire at a former San Francisco Bay Area Navy shipyard lit up the night sky, but caused no injuries.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports (http://bit.ly/1hQ5ZVv ) Friday that the fire broke out shortly before midnight Thursday at the Alco Metal & Iron Company, a recycling yard, on Mare Island.

Residents were being asked to avoid the area Friday, but an official shelter-in-place advisory was not issued. Flames from the fire could be seen east of San Francisco.

The fire department responded a year ago Saturday to a big fire in the same recycling yard.

Mare Island was also the site of a four-alarm fire in an abandoned barracks last August and a fire in 2005 that destroyed $200 million worth of wine and resulted in the conviction of an arsonist, the newspaper reported.

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