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Fire Hits World Trade Center Construction Trailers

A storage container burned at the construction site of 1 World Trade Center on Wednesday.Chang W. Lee/The New York Times A storage container burned at the construction site of 1 World Trade Center on Wednesday.

A fire at the World Trade Center construction site damaged three construction trailers on Wednesday but did not affect any buildings and injured no one, the authorities said.

The fire broke out around 11:30 a.m. in a trailer used by master mechanics that is stored north of the Pavilion of the National September 11 Memorial Museum and just west of the site of 3 World Trade Center, according to the Fire Department and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

The fire spread to two other trailers, the Port Aut hority said, and was declared under control at 12:19 p.m., the Fire Department said.