Firefighters are at the scene of a structure fire at the Rotterdam Industrial Park.
The call came in shortly before 1:30 this morning at the New York Rubber Recycling Warehouse. Rotterdam police say seven companies responded and are now just putting out some hot spots.
Nobody was hurt, and there's no word yet how this fire started.
ROTTERDAM Fire crews called to warehouse Rubber recycling firm hit with 2nd blaze BY JUSTIN MASON Gazette Reporter Reach Gazette reporter Justin Mason at 395-3113 or jmason@dailygazette.net
Smoke pouring from an overturned bucket loader drew seven area fire companies to the New York Rubber Recycling warehouse in the Rotterdam Industrial Park early Tuesday morning. County Fire Coordinator John Nuzback said a small fire started after the Bobcat overturned on a large pile of shredded rubber and spilled oil around 1:30 a.m. The warehouse then filled with a thick, acrid smoke, which made it diffi cult for crews to locate the source. Crews stayed on scene for nearly six hours, while company workers moved piles of the rubber in search of hot spots. Nuzback said there was a total of seven crews on scene, with at least four others put on notice. “Because they couldn’t find the source, they called in a lot of services just in case the fire took off,” he said. Nuzback said one fi refighter sustained a minor neck injury during the call. Investigators continue to look into the exact cause of the fi re, however it is not being considered suspicious. Rubber Recycling, a subsidiary of the New Jersey-based PermaLife Products, makes rubber products by super-cooling scrap tires and then smashing them into crumb rubber of various shapes and sizes. The recycled rubber is used as a wood mulch substitute for playground surfaces and as a base for sports fields. The fire is the second at the company over the last three months. In June, a fire ignited inside a machine hopper and then spread into a large collector at Building 14 in the industrial park. David Buicko, an executive of the Galesi Group, which owns and operates the industrial park off Duanesburg Road, said the two fires were unrelated. He said the building’s sprinkler system was activated during the latest fire and there didn’t appear to anything more than smoke damage. “Neither one was extensive,” he said.
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