A fire that broke out a Wisconsin dairy plant on Monday night sent a river of melted butter flowing across the factory floor and into nearby storm drains, where it clogged a historic water artery. The conflagration erupted at an Associated Milk Producers facility in Portage around 9pm local time, firefighters said on Wednesday. Nobody was injured. Authorities said it was unclear what caused the blaze, which is under investigation, and will assess the runoff before deciding how best to clean it up.
Firefighters tried to enter the burning building but were deterred “due to the heavy smoke and runoff”. The fire broke out in a butter-storage room, and the butter started to “flow” throughout the facility.
“The butter runoff and heavy smoke slowed access to the structure,” officials said. “Many” firefighting crews worked for hours to contain and extinguish the fire.
“When we first tried to go up the stairs to that part that collapsed, this stuff, the butter, was running down like, three inches thick on the steps. So our guys were up to their knees trying to go up the steps to get to the top, and they’re trying to drag the hose line,” local NBC affiliate WMTV quoted the Portage fire chief, Troy Haase, as saying. “The hose line got so full of butter they couldn’t hang on to it any more.”
Yet another sabotage at a food processing plant. It's as if someone was trying to cause food shortages and famine. Why?
ReplyDelete"...where it clogged a historic water artery."
ReplyDeleteThat's what the Doc says it does to my arteries, too.