Firefighters extinguished a wood, bark and mulch fire Monday evening that had been burning for nearly 12 hours at the CCL Organics recycling facility near Benicia, Cordelia Fire Protection District Chief Keith Martin said Tuesday.
The fire at 1460 Goodyear Road parallel to Interstate Highway 680 in unincorporated Solano County was reported around 3:45 a.m. Monday.
Firefighters cleared the scene around 5 p.m.
The core of the fire consisted of 75-by-150 feet of logs and tree stumps within a main debris pile that was 200-by-100 feet, Martin said.
Firefighters peeled back and spread out the mulch on top of the debris fire to get to the tree stumps and logs that took four hours to extinguish. Overhaul operations took another three hours, according to Martin.