Posted on 04/20/2021 4:23:38 PM PDT by dynachrome
Thick black smoke billowed Tuesday afternoon from a fire at the Domino Sugar plant in Locust Point, SkyTeam 11 reported.
Fire officials said firefighters were called shortly after 3 p.m. to Domino Sugar, where heavy fire and smoke came through the roof of a structure. Once firefighters got inside, fire was showing from a silo that collapsed. The fire made its way onto a conveyor belt and traveled midway through the building.
Firefighters were told to evacuate the building, and officials called for three alarms.
All employees evacuated on their own and were accounted. No injuries were reported.
American Sugar Refining Inc. released a statement, saying: "A fire in the raw sugar shed of the Baltimore refinery was reported at approximately 3 p.m. on Tuesday. The Baltimore City Fire Department was immediately contacted and the refinery was evacuated. All employees are accounted for and no injuries occurred. The refinery is currently not operating and the fire department remains on the scene. The cause of the fire is under investigation."
The Baltimore Fire Department's fire boat helped tackle the fire with additional water supply.
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But some stupid with a flare gun
Burned the place to the ground
Or not.
It’s Baltimore, how could they tell?
Interesting. It seems the fire started in the storage area but the conveyor belts continue to run and spread the fire elsewhere in the factory. You would think they would have some sort of safety systems installed so the fire alarm activated it would immediately shut down the production equipment or anything that could spread the fire.
Exactly. That is Plant automation 101.
Sugar will burn quite vigorously.
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That’s in a generally good part of the city. Right next to under armor.
Yeah. Like a big, red button.
Doubtful. But they are now selling 3lb bags instead of 5lb.
Black smoke at the sugar factor means a new Keebler elf...or is that white smoke?
Someone running off a batch of rum?
The Keebler elf would make a better Pope. haha.
Domino Sugar sued Domino's Pizza for some kind of copyright violation, or some such.
Who is going to confuse a 5 pound bag of sugar with a large pepperoni pizza?
So the settlement said we always had to say Domino's Pizza, not just Domino's.
I don’t know what’s good or bad about Baltimore, but that Domino Sugar sign is iconic.
I used to work with a guy who’s dad designed the iconic sign
Black smoke at the sugar factor means a new Keebler elf...or is that white smoke?
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I hope it’s a new Keebler elf, the one we have is a communist.
There was an explosion there in 2007.
[The fire made its way onto a conveyor belt and traveled midway through the building.]
That coronavirus. It’s the new T-800.
I think one of those T-800 things showed up on a conveyor belt, too.
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