Following NFPA standards and building a strong safety culture can prevent food processing facility fires before they start.
Fire crews respond to industrial fire at pet treat facility in Spanish Fork.
Combustible sugar dust caused an explosion that killed 14 workers in Port Wentworth, Georgia, on Feb. 7, 2008.
Facility produces 600,000 jars a day.
Firefighters extinguished the blaze within 90 minutes.
No sprinklers or hydrants at the plant site.
Boiler shut down immediately, company says.
Main production area goes unaffected.
Mutual aid response brought two ladder truck to the scene.
Reopened for Production Later the Same Day.
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