By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – Firefighters from four departments responded overnight to a fire in the Chehalis Industrial Park at a tire recycling business.
Crews found a semi-trailer about half full of rubber shavings burning, flames from which spread to a conveyor-type piece of machinery, according to Lewis County Fire District 6.
The 1:20 a.m. incident on Melhart Road at Conrad Industries took about an hour to get under control, according to Chief Tim Kinder.
Nobody was hurt and the cause is under investigation, Kinder said.
Just yesterday evening, crews were called to the nearby Mohawk Industries on the 200 block of Downie Road where a small pile of foam beneath a hopper had ignited.
Employees had it nearly extinguished by the time the fire department arrived, Kinder said. Mohawk manufactures carpet padding, according to the chief.
“(It was) mostly smoke, not a lot of damage,” Kinder said.
Contents of trailer at Conrad Industries are extinguished. / Courtesy photo by Lewis County Fire District 6.
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