Officials said the fire began under a desk in a second-floor office. It was dealt with quickly, but the office sustained heavy water damage.
“Extinguish the fire. Overhaul, salvage, ventilated the smoke out of the second story of the building and the scene was clear. No injuries,” said Plessis Volunteer Fire Chief Mike Hunter.
Employees were briefly evacuated from the facility. Production has since resumed.
A Hood company spokesman described the fire as a “small electrical fire.”
“We are grateful to the local emergency responders who assisted with the incident,” he said.
“Crews were able to put it out fairly quickly. There’s heavy damage with water, things of that nature,” said Redwood Volunteer Fire Chief George Martin.
Firefighters and employees were seen pushing water out of the building.
“After the fire was out, the sprinkler continued to push lots of gallons of water on that second floor, so it took us a while to get that sprinkler head isolated and shut off. And then we just had to do overhaul, so we were just pushing lots of water off the floor,” said Hunter.
The 8 a.m. fire call brought a good number of volunteers to the plant to protect a major employer.
Town of Orleans Supervisor Kevin Rarick says it was a great response from fire departments and commended those in the community for coming together when help is needed.
Town of Orleans, LaFargeville, Town of Clayton, Depauville, Theresa, Redwood, Alexandria Bay and Plessis firefighters were all on scene.
State police and Jefferson County Sheriff’s deputies were also at the plant.