VIDEO: Firefighters had to put out a blaze at a pet food processing plant in Burley on Monday afternoon. The fire broke out around 1:53 p.m. inside a Link One Ingredient Solutions scrubber near the intersection of Washington Avenue and West 27th Street, according to Burley Fire Chief Shannon Tolman. The scrubber is a fiberglass column at the plant that filters omissions before releasing them into the atmosphere.
Chief Tolman said the scrubber shot black smoke and flames into the air, which was visible from the Burley Fire Department’s main building. Fire crews had to use a ladder unit as the fire melted a portion of the fiberglass column. One person injured their leg during the fire, according to Chief Tolman. Intermountain Health paramedics had to transport them to the hospital.
Burley High School, which is nearby the facility, contacted the fire department to ask if an order for a shelter-in-place needed to be issued, according to Tolman. The school did not put the order in place since the fire was almost controlled by then. The cause of the scrubber fire is currently under investigation.
