WATCH: Massive fire breaks out again at scrap metal facility on Southwest Side

SAFD says crews have been called out to facility 8 times in 5 years

SAN ANTONIO – San Antonio firefighters battled a massive fire at a scrap metal facility Thursday afternoon on the Southwest Side.

Plumes of smoke could be seen billowing from the building on Frio City Road.

This isn’t the first time that firefighters have been called to this facility.

San Antonio Fire Department officials said they’ve been called out here eight times in the last five years.

There’s no word on a cause of Thursday’s fire.

No one was injured.


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Cody King is a digital journalist for KSAT 12. She previously worked for WICS/WRSP 20 in Springfield, Illinois.