Sprinklers at Quincy Recycling prevented a paper fire from spreading early Wednesday morning.
The Marion Fire Department responded to the business in the 6200 block of North Gateway Drive for a paper pile smoldering around 3:20 am.
When crews arrived the pile had already been extinguished by the business’s deluge sprinkler system.
The fire started near the shredder and was confined to the discharge pile.
All occupants exited the building and no one was injured.
The Addison Fire Protection District said crews responding to an activated fire alarm at the facility, which reports place in the 1700 block of West Fullerton Avenue, arrived to find heavy smoke pouring from the building.
While the facility’s sprinkler system helped to contain the blaze, firefighters pulled several large hose lines into the building to extinguish the flames, fire officials said.
Once skylights and overhead doors were opened, fire crews used front end loaders to remove tons of burning paper from the building. A 30-foot by 30-foot area of burning shredded paper was found in the building, firefighters said.
Firefighters worked to put out a fire in Margate.
The fire broke out at a Public Works facility near North Rock Island Road and First Street, Saturday.
Heavy smoke could be seen billowing from the building.
Firefighters knocked down the fire to limit the extent of the damage.
Officials said the sprinkler system was key in keeping the fire under control.
EFD crews were dispatched to Piranha Mobile Shredding on Franklin Street on Wednesday after an alarm service reported a sprinkler system activation at the business.
The fire department says crews arrived at the business around 7:00 p.m. and found a heavy haze inside the building.
The fire involved a baler, where EFD says most of the fire was contained by the sprinkler system.
No injuries occurred as a result of the fire, and no structural damage was reported.
EFD says the fire remains under investigation at this time.
Firefighters responded to a call around 10:16 a.m. Friday at Midwest Fiber Recycling located at 4000 E. Steelton Ave. According to Terre Haute Fire Chief Bill Berry, the trailer was a total loss.
The fire caused a sprinkler system inside the building to go off; however, Berry said the recycling center was not damaged. No was hurt during the incident.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
A fire leaving a road in Downtown Fargo partially closed down Tuesday afternoon.
Fargo Firefighters responded to a blaze at Minnkota Recycling at around 12:30 p.m. Officials say the fire began inside a cardboard compactor, then spread to cardboard material outside.
The building’s sprinkler system kept the fire contained to that area, but as of 2 p.m. crews were still working to put it out.
4th Avenue North was closed down at 10th Street North due to the flames and crews working the scene.
No injuries have been reported.
The sprinkler system put out a fire at a compost facility on Riverview Road in Akron Sunday.
The facility’s alarm company contacted the Akron Fire Department shortly before 2 p.m., according to an Akron Fire media release. The alarm company said they had talked to someone at the plant and that they could not turn the alarm off.
The fire department sent an engine and found a room in a building full of smoke, the release said. The fire had been extinguished by an overhead sprinkler.
No one was injured.
The Conway Fire Department was called out at 8:46 a.m. Monday regarding a fire inside the recycling center and was on scene in less than one minute, Fire Chief Mike Winter said.
An object inside the building had caught fire, and the building’s sprinkler system had the fire contained when the fire department arrived on scene, Winter said.
The Conway fire chief confirmed Wednesday afternoon that no one was injured.
Altogether, six fire trucks and 14 firefighters and engineers responded to the scene. The fire was completely out by 9:34 a.m., Winter said.
Early Tuesday a fire was reported at the Plainfield Municipal Utilities Authority transfer station at 95 Rock Avenue. Breaking News Network reported that smoke was seen coming from a trailer structure and Union County hazmat teams were requested to assist in the investigation.
According to the PMUA website, the Plainfield Environmental Resource Center (PERC) is the city-owned and PMUA-operated transfer station used to facilitate the proper disposal of all solid, recyclable, electronic, bulky and vegetative wastes collected from local residents, Plainfield’s Department of Public Works, private businesses and other municipalities. It is unknown what specific materials were contained in the trailer.
TAPinto Plainfield reached out to PMUA officials, and received this statement from Director Eric Jackson:
“Please be advised at approximately 12:40 pm we had a small fire at the Transfer Station in the Big House. The Fire Department was immediately called. The sprinkler system did activate and contained the fire. There were no injuries and no customers involved. The fire was inside the trailer in the big house. Under fire personnel supervision, the trailer was removed from the big house and was being examined for the cause of the fire. The transfer station will remain closed until the fire department completes their work and the sprinkler system is re-set.”
