Category Archives: Manufacturing
Snohomish, WA – Sprinkler system holds fire commercial fire in check
Snohomish County Fire District #4 was dispatched to a fire alarm, wherethey found smoke coming from the building and upgraded the response to a commercial fire.
Units from Everett Fire, South County Fire, and Snohomish Regional Fire and Rescue assisted Snohomish County Fire District #4.
Investigators said the building had an operating sprinkler system that held the fire in check until crews could gain access to the seat of the fire and fully extinguish it.
Currently there is no cause to the fire and the Snohomish County Fire Marshal is leading the investigation.
Cambridge, ON, Canada – Sprinkler system activated for fire at Cintas facility; No injuries reported
An early morning fire at a Cambridge business caused significant damage.
Cambridge Fire told CTV News there were no injuries and no one was inside at the time.
Damage to the building is substantial, they added.
Cambridge Fire said it was an offensive attack to contain and suppress the fire with the assistance of the building sprinkler system.
The cause of the fire has not yet been determined.
Officials said it’s unlikely workers will be able to return to work Monday due to poor air quality inside the building.
Cambridge Fire wrapped up the investigation by Monday evening and said the building was released back to the owner to start the clean up process.
Redmond, OR – Sprinkler system activated for fire at business; No injuries reported
Redmond Fire & Rescue respond to a fire at an animal bedding business Saturday night.
Around 10:30p.m. fire crews arrived at JTS Animal Bedding on 1st Street in southeast Redmond to smoke coming from a building located at the backside of the property.
Fire crews discovered fire burning within an enclosed conveyor belt area and baghouse. The buildings fire sprinkler system had activated and was keeping the fire in check.
Crews worked to contain the fire to the one building and prevented it from spreading to the main warehouse.
There were no reported injuries.
The cause of the fire was due to an overheated bearing on a roller within the conveyor belt area. The overheated bearing caused the wood dust to smolder then ignite and spread fire through the conveyor belt area and baghouse.
Bridgewater, VT – Sprinkler system activated for fire at furniture making facility; No injuries reported
“We are now cleaning up water and smoke damage but nothing critical was damaged and, more importantly, no person was injured,” Shackleton posted on social media on Saturday.
The fire happened a little more than a year after Shackleton had to shut down in July 2023 after torrential rains caused the Ottauquechee River to overflow and flood the basement level of the Bridgewater Mill building, damaging sawing and milling equipment used to cut and shape wood into furniture parts.
Bridgewater and Woodstock firefighters were dispatched at 5:40 p.m. on Friday after callers reported “an explosion and visible smoke” coming from the third floor of the mill building, according to a news release from Bridgewater Volunteer Fire Department.
Upon entering the third floor firefighters, “encountered heavy black smoke with zero visibility” and “found a small fire” on the third floor but “fortunately … the sprinklers did their job in keeping the fire contained,” the fire department said in the statement.
Once the fire was tamped down and the third floor ventilated, mutual aid crews from area fire departments placed tarps over the furniture on the floors below to mitigate the loss of furniture and wood caused by water dripping down from the activated sprinklers on the floor above.
“It was mostly water and smoke damage, no major structural damage at all,” Jeff Shepard, shop manager at Shackleton, said on Monday afternoon.
The damage was largely limited to “tools and machinery” and a power control box which “shorted out” on the second floor, caused by water, Shepard said.
The only piece of furniture that was damaged was a bunk bed on the third floor that Shephard said he was finishing. “It was right next to the fire and the firemen soaked it so the drawers underneath it got soaked. So I’ll have to remake those,” he said.
The fire broke out after employees had left for the day and no one was inside the ShackletonThomas portion of the building, according to Shepard.
“Reports from bystanders that the smoke was heaviest on the Route 4 side” of the building led Bridgewater firefighters to request a second alarm “to bring in additional mutual aid for a working fire,” the Bridgewater Fire Department said.
State fire investigators at the scene on Monday were still investigating the cause of the fire, but Shackleton said in a social media post that they are looking into the possibility it was caused by “maybe lithium batteries. We don’t know.”
Showroom floor items “were not damaged” and “we plan to have furniture production back up and running in two weeks” while an end-of-month sale remains scheduled as planned, Shackleton said.
“It was a year ago in July that I was down in the basement fixing all the machinery,” Shepard reflected on Monday. “It’s ‘Groundhog Day,’ ” he said good-humoredly, referring to the 1993 Bill Murray movie about a man trapped in a repeating cycle of a day’s events.
Medford, OR – Sprinkler system contains fire in office space at commercial building; No injuries reported
According to MFD, the fire, which was burning above a small office space, was largely contained by the sprinkler system inside the building.
In a Facebook post, the department said, “had the sprinkler system not been in place, the fire would have been much larger by the time crews arrived on scene. We want to take this opportunity to highlight the importance of maintaining fire protection systems in buildings.”
No one was injured and the cause is being investigated.
Kiel, WI – Sprinkler system activated for fire at foundry; No injuries reported
A fire was reported at the Kiel Foundry over the weekend.
The Kiel Fire Department reports that crews were dispatched to the business in the 300 block of Park Avenue just before 7:00 Friday evening after a citizen noticed fire alarms were sounding and smoke was coming through the roof.
Firefighters arrived on the scene and forced entry into the building.
They were able to control the fire within 30 minutes of arrival, with help from the sprinkler system and additional units that arrived from around the area.
The fire was said to have started in the ceiling, but the exact cause is not known at this time.
No injuries were reported and there is no damage cost estimate available as of this morning.
Kiel Fire was assisted at the scene by Elkhart Lake, New Holstein, Plymouth, Glenbeulah, St. Anna, and St. Nazianz fire teams along with Manitowoc County Joint Dispatch, Kiel Police, the Kiel Department of Public Works, and by the Wisconsin State Patrol.
Wadsworth, OH – Sprinkler system activated for fire at recycled rubber manufacturer; No injuries reported
The company is located in the 300 block of 1st St.
Fire officials told 19 News six workers were in the building when the fire started. All escaped without injuries.
“The first arriving crews, arrived on the scene, there were flames through the roof, set up a defensive attack, got the first knocked down, trying to get all the hotspots,” said Wadsworth Assistant Fire Chief Richard Potter. “There was fire in the machine.”
Firefighters remained on the scene for two hours.
The cause of the blaze remains under investigation.
There is no damage estimate at this time; however, fire officials said there is plenty of water damage from the building’s sprinkler system and from the fire crews.
It will be a couple of days before it dries out enough to turn on the electricity and resume activity, said Assistant Fire Chief Potter.
Almont, MI – Sprinkler system activated for fire at metal casting facility
Oak Creek, WI – Sprinkler system activated for fire at power plant; No injuries reported
When crews arrived at the scene, they found smoke visible from the exterior of the dust collector. Fire companies entered the facility and confirmed that a fire had been extinguished by the sprinkler system.
There was no extension of the fire to any other part of the structure.
There were no reported injuries to We Energies employees or fire personnel. The cause of the fire is currently under investigation.
