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| By Bob Bartosz |
| A burning commercial paper processing and storage plant in the South Camden section of the city can hardly been seen through the low-hanging dense smoke
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| By Bob Bartosz |
| Collingswood Fire Department Ladder Company went to work, opening up the four-story building. |
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| At times all you could see near this burning commercial paper processing and storage plant in the South Camden section of the city was a hose line that vanished into the smoke-filled building. |
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| By Bob Bartosz |
| The length and depth of the burning building, which was loaded with paper stock, is shown here. |
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| An interior view provides some insight into what firefighters were faced with at this burning commercial paper processing and storage plant in the South Camden section of the city. |
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| Westmont and Blackwood Ladder Companies went to work, ventilating.
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| By Bob Bartosz |
| Camden Chief of Department Car 1 Joseph Marini gets a progress report from Car 2-B Deputy Chief Tom Quinn on interior command, as firefighters fight a smoky four-alarm blaze in a commercial paper processing and storage plant in the South Camden section of the city.
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CAMDEN - On July 13, 2007, Camden firefighters were at the scene of a two-alarm fire in a row of dwellings in the North Camden section of the city. The fire was just being placed Under Control when a call came in for a fire in a commercial paper processing and storage plant in the South Camden section of the city. The remaining city fire apparatus, consisting of Engine Company 10 and Engine Company 8, along with mutual aid companies from Woodlynne, Collingswood and Gloucester City were dispatched.
The First In Camden unit reported a large four-story warehouse, 600 x 200 with extremely heavy smoke showing.
The chief of the department, Joseph Marini, Car 1, was now arriving, and he requested that a second alarm be sounded. Numerous mutual aid units from Camden County were dispatched. A few Camden units were also now going available as they were released from the previous second-alarm fire.
On the scene, the smoke was so heavy that the huge building was almost invisible and fire fighters had a hard time working their way through the heavy smoke. Chief Marini pulled a third alarm, and a few moments later a fourth alarm was struck. The chief also requested two additional truck companies to be added on the fourth alarm, for a total of six truck companies.
The building was sprinklered, and many of the sprinklers were activated. However, numerous hand lines were needed to attack the main center of the blaze. The building was loaded with huge bales of paper products in which many were involved with fire.
Ladder companies from Bellmawr, Westmont and Blackwood were on one side of the building, opening up for ventilation along with ladder companies from Collingswood, Gloucester City and Pennsauken Towship, which were on the other side of the building opening up.
It took firefighters almost an hour before Chief Marini placed the fire Under Control. A Special Call was placed for a rehab unit and canteen from Cherry Hill Fire Department. along with extra EMS Units and a field communications unit from Camden County.
Firefighters remained on location throughout the night, overhauling. The fire is under investigation by the Camden City Fire Marshal's office.
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