Fire Guts Cudahy Meat Plant Stubborn Blaze Puts Patrick Cudahy Packing Plant Out of Operation
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel › July 07, 2009
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Cudahy -- A stubborn fire in the 121-year-old Patrick Cudahy meatpacking plant drained the city's water supply and tested the patience of hundreds of residents forced from their homes by the threat of smoke that billowed from the blaze through a second night.
About 5 p.m. Monday, more than 20 hours into the effort, officials projected it would take another 24 to 36 hours of firefighting to douse the flames in a sprawling complex of 1.4 million square feet, built over more than a century. Officials suspect the fire started in an unused area in the plant and may have been fueled by cardboard and plastic packaging materials in a nearby storage space.See the full content of this document
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Fire Guts Cudahy Meat Plant Stubborn Blaze Puts Patrick Cudahy Packing Plant Out of Operation
"This fire happened to get into a couple of void spaces and traveled very quickly and was very difficult to put out with all the different construction methods that were used over the years to add on to this building," said Gary Posda, a Cudahy Fire Department battalion chief. "We are gaining ground, but we still have a ways to go."
Workers smelled smoke in the plant and called 911 about ...See the full content of this document
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