Manufacturing, Manufacturing Plant Dubuque, IA – Fire in paint booth at manufacturing facility controlled with help from sprinkler system June 19, 2015 viking210 Firefighters say a fire inside a paint booth at a Dubuque warehouse Tuesday was contained fairly quickly but still caused significant damage. Dubuque Fire Chief Rick Steines said firefighters received a report at 9:49 a.m. Tuesday at a warehouse at 1111 Purina Drive. He said the blaze originated in a paint booth used by manufacturing company Andersen Eagle and was contained to the machinery. Steines also said there were two 50-gallon barrels of acetone in the booth that started to burn. No injuries have been reported. Steines said the booth’s sprinkler system helped contain the fire and firefighters were able to run a hose into the booth to extinguish the blaze. He said it was contained within about 15 minutes but crews stayed on scene to ensure the fire was out and to assess damage and help get the sprinkler system back on line. Steines said the paint booth’s safety functions worked properly and the damage was contained to the booth. “There’s no damage estimate yet, but there was pretty significant damage to the paint booth and some water damage from the sprinklers.,” Steines said. He said the fire was paged out at a two-alarm level at first. But since it was contained quickly, the additional crews were back in service a short time later.
