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Show TftHhwn Maze Razes I . F . A . Building Wednesday Flames Destroy Portion of Bldg. Over 200 Tons of Stored Grain Losses estimated at approximately approx-imately $150,000 were suffered by intormountain Farmers Association, As-sociation, north between 100 and 200 West, in a pro-dawn blaze Wednesday. Speculation Wednesday was that the fire had been started either through faulty wiring or l faulty motor in the manu-acturing manu-acturing area of the 1FA plant and the blaze was raging icarly out of control when an alarm was turned in at 6:10 a. ni. Wednesday. Destroyed in the fire was over 200 tons of grain that was stored in the bins in the manufacturing man-ufacturing area, plus gutting a major portion of that area of the building. Total losses will not be known until investgation of equipment of the plant can be examined such as a $20,000 pellet mU that was located ..ear the center of the blaze. Second Fire Initially one portion of the building was put under control con-trol when, according to Fire Chief Orrin Green, super-heated dust and spontaneous corn-bus'.ion corn-bus'.ion exploded in the west en J of the building, resulting i.i additional blaze and additional addi-tional water damage in bring' ing it under control. E. Rulon Brough, manager of the Cedar City plant, indicated that the organization will call upon outlets in Delta and St George to help meet emergency emer-gency needs for those who IFA supply in this area. He also al-so indicated that IFA has extensive ex-tensive insurance to cover not only the material losses but the losses of grains, feeds and other supplies in storage at tiie time. At the height of the blaze, flames were leaping over a hundred feet into the air, and 1 in the stillness of the morning I several hundred feet andUN a column of smoke rose to several hundred feet and was visible from throughout Cedar Valley.' "V" :''-2(f To Be Determined Actual losses from fire, and water will not be known for several days, but fast actioi on the part of the Volunteer Fire Department and others on site, resulted in the salvaging of many of the IFA supplies. All of the time inventory was taken from the building without with-out damage, and although in the final stages the office area suffered water damage, all of the records of the organization were kept intact without damage. dam-age. The entire roof structure of the large warehouse and manufacturing man-ufacturing building suffered I damage and the major bins and grain storage structures I were completely burned out and will necessitate rebuilding. rebuild-ing. Plans of IFA were not immediately im-mediately known as to what DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. Flames leap from Inter-mountain Inter-mountain Farmers Association building in fire that erupted early Wednesday morning. Over 200 tons of grain in bins either went up in the flames or was ruined by water. extent the manufacturing unit of the operation will be restored, re-stored, according to Brough. |
