Highlights:

• Facing a building already engulfed in flames, Alabama firefighters elect to let the Big Marshall Recycling Center burn to the ground.
• Lt. Brian Walls of the Gunersville, Alabama Fire Department remarked "When we arrived on scene, the building was already 90 percent involved."  
• No one was injured at the scene.  The cause of the fire is unknown but the facilities owner claims that power was not on at the plant which was closed for a holiday weekend. 
   

From the article:

Firefighters from numerous volunteer and full-time fire departments did something most would find surprising. They left a fire burning and are letting it burn itself out.

Lt. Brian Walls of the Guntersville Fire Department said Alabama Department of Environmental Management officials on the scene of a large blaze at Big Marshall Recycling on Friday afternoon suggested letting the fire burn itself out.

“When we arrived on scene, the building was already 90 percent involved,” Walls said of the blaze reported just after noon Friday.

“About 30 percent of the building had already collapsed, making it really difficult to get water where we needed it.”

The recycling center is located next to the closed Bishop Landfill off Pleasant Grove Cut-Off Road in the Sims community between Albertville and Guntersville.