Equipment used to attack last remaining hot spot at meat packing plant.
Demolition equipment was brought in Tuesday afternoon to attack what fire officials believed was the last hot spot of fire in the walls of the former Emge meat-packing plant near Fort Branch, Indiana.
Crews from Evansville-based Summit Environmental Services and firefighters from throughout the area worked through the night Monday and into early afternoon Tuesday to extinguish hot spots smoldering in the walls of the building.
Because the insulation that was burning was contained between walls of concrete and concrete block, it was difficult to get at it with conventional firefighting equipment and techniques.
The crews from the contractor were brought in at the EPA’s expense Monday afternoon to tear into the walls to reach the smoldering insulation so firefighters could douse it with water from tanker trucks provided by fire departments from throughout the area.
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