Fire engulfed an acre-wide mound of paper and cardboard at a Sun Valley recycling firm Monday afternoon, sending up 200-foot-high flames and thick, black plumes of smoke visible throughout

much of the San Fernando Valley, fire officials said. No injuries were reported and the blaze was contained in the yard of Sun Valley Paper Stock Inc., Los Angeles Fire Department officials

said. Gusty winds blew burning embers that spread the flames throughout the 6-foot high paper pile and sent blasts of hot air into nearby debris, igniting it. Fire raged over the pile of

paper and inside two corrugated metal warehouses containing rags, aluminum cans and plastic bottles, Assistant Fire Chief Richard Olsen said. Robert Fagan, one of the firm’s owners, said