Indiana Recycling Plant Fire Forces 2,000 Residents to Evacuate
Fire Chief Tim Brown said the department cited the property owner numerous times for unsafe conditions. They knew a fire would eventually happen: “It wasn’t if, it’s just when.”
In Richmond, IN, a massive fire at the former Hoffco factory forced out 2,000 residents:
Indiana State Police said the blaze was at the former Hoffco factory, which closed in 2009.
Wayne County EMA said the evacuation order applied to residents and persons within 0.5 miles of the fire. Those outside that zone were advised to keep windows closed and pets inside.
The factory closed in 2009. Fire Chief Tim Brown said the department cited the property owner numerous times for unsafe conditions.
Brown also said they knew a fire would eventually happen: “It wasn’t if, it’s just when.”
This is horrible. It could have been prevented:
He said the six buildings were full of plastic from “floor to ceiling, wall to wall” along with several semi-trailers.
When firefighters arrived on scene they found a semi-trailer in the back of the building on fire and the fire quickly jumped to the multiple piles of plastic nearby.
Brown said the owner of the property had been cited previously for the property being unsafe.
Fire crews, along with the city had been trying to get them to clean up the buildings for some time, Brown said.
Due to the clouds of black smoke coming off the fire, all residents within half a mile of the scene were asked to evacuate.
Please see attached map of evacuation zone. pic.twitter.com/mnDbZtu8ox
— Dave Snow (@mayordavesnow) April 11, 2023
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Funny how “when” is smack dab in the middle of other incidents where barns and warehouses mysteriously catch fire along with high-profile train derailments.
Are we under attack? Seriously asking.
No we’re not. You’re seeing nothing more than selection bias in the news and putting together unrelated events in a false pattern which is human nature.
It’s like police shootings. You rarely see the White people shot by the police. Yet statistically (based on felony arrests) you’re 50% more likely to be shot if you’re White than Black. If you go by general crime-rate, Blacks (21% of shootings, 23% of all crimes) are shot less than other groups.
In the end we get BLM and riots because the news pushes the Black victim narrative and people are ignorant and ‘see the pattern’ which is entirely false.
No, but every hack reporter is now breathless to collect these quotidian events and hype them as part of a trend.
At least it wasn’t a truckload of contaminated soil from East Palestine crashing.
Oy vey.
So much for the recycling myth, plastics division.
Did the Fire Chief just admit that the City was well aware of a serious hazard nuisance that the City failed to ensure was abated? Sounds like he did.