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MY WAY TRADING FIRE DECLARED OUT

(Richmond, IN)--The fire is out.  The My Way Trading fire, which burned millions of pounds of plastic, was declared out at 8:44 Thursday night.  That’s roughly 54 hours after it began burning on North West F in Richmond on Wednesday afternoon.  The fire department was able to change tactics and disperse the burning material Thursday.  "We have focused more on going inside the hot zone and, with trackhoes and bulldozers, turning things over and applying foam to extinguish the fire," said Chief Tim Brown.  Brown talked Thursday about how big the fire actually was.  "It had six buildings.  Each one of those buildings was full of plastics.  I would say that 100% of that has been consumed."  Two firefighters suffered minor injuries in the course of fighting the fire.