{"id":5141,"date":"2022-06-02T07:01:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T10:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=5141"},"modified":"2022-06-02T07:01:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T10:01:22","slug":"fire-at-former-bowater-site-quickly-contained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2022\/06\/02\/fire-at-former-bowater-site-quickly-contained\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire at former Bowater site quickly contained"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A fire broke out as crews were demolishing part of TMP plant at the former Bowater site. Photo Valerie Wamboldt<\/p><\/div>\n

Monday\u2019s fire at the former Bowater plant was quickly brought under control by fire services from across Queens County.<\/p>\n

Fire crews responded to page at 4:56pm Monday on the old mill property and arrived to find a fire at the former TMP plant.<\/p>\n

Liverpool Fire Department spokesperson John Long says the plant was being demolished and it appears that work may have been the ignition source.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were using some cutting devices which may have caused the fire.\u201d<\/p>\n

Long says all Queens fire departments were on the scene except for Mill Village who stood by at Port Medway.<\/p>\n

He says the fire was contained quickly and did not spread to any other buildings on the site.<\/p>\n

Long says it took approximately three hours for the 50 fire personnel to knock down the blaze.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were no unique challenges just a lot of stairs to get to the top.\u201d<\/p>\n

Long says crews planned to return Tuesday to ensure the fire was completely extinguished.<\/p>\n

Reported by Ed Halverson\u00a0<\/strong>
\nE-mail:\u00a0edhalversonnews@gmail.com<\/a><\/strong>
\nTwitter: @edwardhalverson<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Monday\u2019s fire at the former Bowater plant was quickly brought under control by fire services from across Queens County. Fire crews responded to page at 4:56pm Monday on the old mill property and arrived to find a fire at the former TMP plant. Liverpool Fire Department spokesperson John Long says the plant was being demolished […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[745,182,181,180],"class_list":["post-5141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-bowater","tag-fire","tag-john-long","tag-liverpool-fire-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5144,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5141\/revisions\/5144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}