Posted on 09/22/2006 1:01:17 PM PDT by SmithL
Suisun City, Calif. -- Solano County firefighters battled a three-alarm blaze Friday at a massive fertilizer manufacturing plant in a remote area outside of Fairfield.
The grass and structure fire began just after 5 a.m. in an unincorporated part of Suisun City, about 45 miles northeast of San Francisco and a few miles from Travis Air Force Base, according to the county fire department.
Late Friday morning, investigators still did not know what caused the fire at EB Stone & Son, Inc. or whether the burning materials were toxic, said Suisun City Fire Chief Mike O'Brien.
"Our biggest concern is the chemicals in the fertilizer, and we have a team on the scene doing air monitoring," he said.
O'Brien said he believed most of the smoke was coming from piles of organic materials such as peat moss, wood chips and compost located behind the factory buildings. Those piles are extremely flammable, he said, and were expected to continue burning for a couple of days.
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Oh sh....
Due to the proximity to Sacramento, no one would have noticed, except the legislature is not in session.
I've heard of people leaving flaming paper bags on front porches -- but the bags usually don't contain a massive fertilizer manufacturing plant.
the dnc is on fire?
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