No injuries reported after machinery catches fire at Warren County manufacturing facility
WASHINGTON BOROUGH, N.J. (Warren County) — Employees at a manufacturing facility in Washington Borough extinguished a machinery fire early Tuesday morning before firefighters arrived, according to police.
On Nov. 3, at approximately 5:28 a.m., officers from the Washington Township Police Department and members of the Washington Borough Fire Department responded to a manufacturing facility on Route 31 North for a reported equipment fire.
According to police, employees had already extinguished the fire when officers arrived, but smoke remained inside the building.
Firefighters ventilated the building to remove the smoke.
A subsequent investigation determined that a plastic extruding machine had caught fire. Employees used fire extinguishers located inside the facility to put out the flames before emergency responders arrived, police said.
No employees were injured while extinguishing the fire, according to authorities.
In addition to the Washington Township Police Department and Washington Borough Fire Department, several other emergency response agencies were dispatched to the scene.
Those agencies included the Washington Township Fire Department, Mansfield Township Fire Department, Hampton Fire Department, Tri-County Fire Department, Belvidere Fire Department, Hackettstown Fire Department, Washington Emergency Squad, South Branch Emergency Services, Washington Township (Morris County) Fire Prevention Office and Warren County Communications Center.
