McAlester News-Capital, McAlester, OK

April 29, 2011

Fire extinguished at McAlester factory

By Rachel Petersen
Staff Writer

McALESTER — The McAlester Fire Department extinguished a fire at a plastics plant in the Steven Taylor Industrial Park Thursday.

The department received a fire call at 11:28 a.m. Thursday from Berry Plastics at 1 Edison Drive in McAlester.

“The fire was in one of the machines they’ve got in their assembly lines,” said McAlester Fire Chief Brett Brewer.

The factory estimated damage at approximately $1,000, Brewer said.

Contact Rachel Petersen at rpetersen@mcalesternews.com.

For more on this story, see Friday’s print edition of the McAlester News-Capital.