HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – A Holland business is back in operation after a fire last night.
According to Public Safety Fire Operations Captain Chris Tinney, firefighters and police officers were dispatched to the L&W Engineering facility off of East 32nd Street just after 7 PM on a report of a blaze involving plastic shipping containers. When they arrived, they saw flames coming from a high stack of totes in direct contact with the building, extending into the structure at the roof line and “impinging” on the exterior walls.
It took crews from Holland and three other departments about 30 minutes to bring the fire under control, hampered somewhat by limited access to the flames and getting water supplies that were “an extended distance” away to the scene. Damage was limited to the roof assembly and exterior wall, but a cause of the blaze and a cost estimate of the damage wasn’t immediately determined, although Tinney said that, “Early indications suggest an accidental cause, and the circumstances surrounding the fire do not appear to be suspicious.”
The Fire Operations Captain added that production has resumed at L&W as the matter remains under investigation.
