A 2-ALARM FIRE THAT BURNS ITSELF OUT IN 90 minutes is not particularly newsworthy, but the situation in North St. Louis last night was unusual.
The fire department was called at 8 pm Monday to the Dial Corp.’s local plant where a laundry detergent and their Renuzit brand air freshener are made. A fire had started in their “soap dryer” leading to the 9-1-1 call and eventually expanding to a 2nd alarm and a haz-mat response.
The factory has a massive natural gas-fired dryer that is used to evaporate moisture from laundry detergent and leaving it in granular form. Apparently some of the product got jammed in the dryer and began burning. After it was determined that there was no hazard, no injuries, and no opportunity for any further fire spread, the FD elected to let the fire burn itself out.
KMOV-TV has this video report:
