PARK CITY, Kan. (KAKE) - The Sedgwick County Fire Marshal now says the fire that started Sunday at a Park City recycling plant is under control.

The Fire Marshal says that some piles are still smoldering, but there is no active fire or flames.

As of Wednesday afternoon, 13 firefighters and officials remain on the scene using heavy equipment to push burn piles together, compact them, and then saturate them with water.

Tonight, Sedgwick County Fire Department plans to scale back and just have a single crew of three firefighters on the scene to monitor hot spots. They won't be spraying water unless there is a flare-up. Officials say this plan will be utilized on Thursday, as well.

No cause of the fire has yet been determined. No injuries and no structural damage have been reported.

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PARK CITY, Kan. (KAKE) - Sedgwick County says it has made significant progress containing the fire at the Evergreen recycling plant in Park City near 53rd Street. It says this is thanks to the help of the Kansas National Guard and the tireless effort of firefighters to keep it contained.

If you were driving around the area Tuesday afternoon you may have seen a Kansas National Guard Black Hawk helicopter flying through the sky. Starting around noon it took trips from KDOT Lake East to the Evergreen recycling center. With each trip, it poured hundreds of gallons of water into the area.

In total, the county says the helicopter dumped about 9,000 gallons total.

"Our hope is that we're gonna be able to put enough water on those hot spots to at least get them to a smoldering state instead of an open burn state," said Sedgwick County Fire Marshal Brad Crisp when talking about the plan for Tuesday.

He says the priority is still to keep the fire from spreading to the nearby homes and businesses but they are also focused on extinguishing it now.

Several people came out to the recycling plant to watch as a stream of water fell from the sky onto the fire.

"That's pretty neat. We've never, neither of us have seen anything like that before," said John Hayes who came out to watch the water be dropped with his 4-year-old grandson Noah.

They watched the sky in amazement as the helicopter flew back and dumped water on the area.

People also were watching as it filled up the five hundred-gallon bucket at KDOT Lake East.

When the helicopter touched down you could feel a strong wind from the propellers and some people even got sprayed with mist from the lake.

"I can see it!" said one girl as she watched it fly by.

While people say it's incredibly cool to see, it also means a lot.

"To see them coming out here and literally dropping the bags of water it's neat to see it's getting taken care of," said Dallas Keller who also came out to watch it.

He says he was driving on the highway when he saw it and wanted to stop by.

Fire Marshal Crisp still doesn't know when the fire will be fully out but he's happy crews have been able to stop it from spreading, especially with the hot and windy weather working against them. 

The fire started around 7:30 p.m. Sunday night. Since then crews have been working non-stop to contain it and looking at the site you can see there's some serious progress. Yesterday if you drove by you'd see large orange flames but Tuesday morning it was mainly a bunch of smoke filling the sky.

The county says the water drops successfully knocked down a large part of the fire and now firefighters on the ground are continuing their efforts.

"I am cautiously optimistic that we now have the upper hand on this fire, and the threat to nearby homes and businesses is much lower. But there are still piles of wood burning or smoldering, so our work is not over. Crews will remain on the scene until the fire is declared under control and we’re sure no hot spots are going to flare up again," said Crisp.