Food Processing, Manufacturing Columbia, MO – Sprinkler system saves Quaker Oats facility December 4, 2014 viking210 Officials are investigating a fire at the PepsiCo Quaker Oats facility in Columbia Wednesday morning. Several employees called 911 around 6:25 a.m. to report a fire in a rice cake processing machine. They attempted to put the fire out with handheld extinguishers before evacuating the building. Shortly thereafter, the building’s automatic sprinkler system extinguished the fire. According to Columbia Fire Battalion Chief John Metz, without the sprinkler system, the fire would’ve been “devastating”.
