Firefighters spent several hours on the scene of a huge scrap metal fire at an Orlando recycling plant.

Flames and a cloud of thick black smoke could be seen for miles after the fire started at the Trademark Metals Recycling plant shortly before 11:30 this morning.

The fire was quickly contained to just the plant.

The plant is located on 51 East Landstreet Road, west of Orlando International Airport and south of Sand Lake Road. A portion of the roadway was shutdown due to the heavy smoke, but is now back open.

"It was just that black smoke just billowing," said Jane Ann Macree. She has been dropping off scrap metal at the plant for over six years. She was at the plant when the fire started.

"I was taking in my radiator and doing my stuff, and they were going to put me on the scale, and they said evacuation and get out run. So I took off running," said Macree.

Everyone was evacuated and luckily no one was injured. Employees of the plant eventually came back to help put out the fire. They operated the heavy machinery.

About 35 firefighters were called to the scene to help put out the stubborn fire.

The fire started near a pile of crushed cars that were ready to be recycled.

"It was a very large pile, very tall pile, very dense packed material," said Orange County Fire Rescue spokesperson John Mulhall.

Mulhall said they used three ladder tracks. Heavy equipment was brought in to break up the metal, and they had to call the utilities company to provide more water pressure so they could continue to fight the fire.

Fires ignited by metal can sometime be the toughest fires to put out.

"Because these are automobiles, you're also going to have foam materials in there from the seats, plastic from the dashboard, so there's a lot of different materials burning in there which poses their own challenge," said Mulhall.

It's still unclear what caused the fire.

In the coming days, investigators will sift through the pile of metal to try to find a cause.

Firefighters say it's possible that people will continue to see smoke in the area long after the fire crews leave the scene.

The state fire Marshall has decided to not come to investigate the fire.