Facility once used to collect hazardous waste.
Vacant manufacturing plant dates back 145 years.
Firefighters opted to use a Class D chemical fire extinguished to safely extinguish the blaze
The two-alarm blaze drew responders from three agencies, including the North Haven Fire Department.
An automatic alarm alerted local firefighters to the emergency.
Fire broke out Tuesday afternoon at a Connecticut plant specializing in recycling soil contaminated with non-hazardous materials. The plant was not operating at the fire.
Federal recommendations to change the National Fuel Gas Code to prevent disastrous explosions involving gas purging came only three days before a Feb. 7 natural gas explosion at a Middletown, Connecticut, power plant that killed six people and injured nearly a dozen others.
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