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A fire at Radius Recycling in Eugene closed Highway 99 for over three hours on November 3.

Firefighters responded to a 30-foot-high steel pile that had ignited, causing large flames and smoke.

Crews closed the highway to run a water hose line across the road to a fire hydrant.

Highway 99 was closed for over 3 hours on Nov. 3 after a steel pile ignited outside of a building at Radius Recycling, formerly called Schnitzers Steel, in Eugene.

According to Jeff Loewenheim, a battalion chief for the Eugene Springfield Fire Department, firefighters responded to the scene just after 3:30 p.m. They arrived to find large flames and smoke billowing from a 30-foot-high steel pile.

Loewenheim said the northbound and southbound lanes of Highway 99 were closed because crews nee

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