Phoenix Fire Department crews were on the scene of a large debris fire at a metal recycling plant near 35th Avenue and Broadway Road Thursday afternoon.
Capt. Rob McDade said this was a defensive fire.
McDade said crews were able to set up ladder trucks on two sides of the fire to get water on it.
The scrapyard crane operators moved large pieces of metal so firefighters could reach the core of the fire. However, one of the operators struck a ladder truck with his crane.
"And then out of nowhere you hear a mayday from a bucket, from a ladder truck, saying, 'We've been struck by a crane,'" McDade said. "They're swaying back and forth."