Crews battle fire at recycling center in St. Paul, Minn. for 3 hours

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A fire broke out at the WestRock Recycling Center in St. Paul, Minnesota shortly after midnight Thursday. (Photo credit: St. Paul Fire Department) 

A fire broke out at the WestRock Recycling Center in St. Paul, Minnesota shortly after midnight Thursday. 

At 12:12 a.m., the St. Paul Fire Department responded to a fire at the recycling center on the 2200 block of Wabash Avenue in the commercial area of the Saint Anthony Park neighborhood. 

It took 64 firefighters more than three hours to get the fire under control. 

One employee at the recycling center was evacuated for minor smoke inhalation, but no one else was injured. 

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.