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Incident report from Springfield Fire Rescue Division Facebook page:
"Just before 0100 on 6/11/2020, B unit was dispatched to 2100 Larch St. on a report of a fire in this building, which was originally built as the Hoppes Manufacturing Co. over 120 years ago. The building now housed a pallet manufacturing factory. First arriving companies found heavy fire already venting through the roof and before it was over, the fire went to a third alarm. Responding companies were E3, E6, E7, T4, T8, R1, M4, M6, Battalion 1, Chief 1, Chief 2, Chief 3, Marshal 1, and Box 27 Associates. The factory building itself was heavily damaged, with only a small part being saved. Larch St is very narrow, and directly across the street is an older residential neighborhood. Many of the houses along Larch suffered radiant heat damage, but quick actions by R1 and T8 on the D side of the factory provided exposure protection hose lines to these homes, and kept them from igniting as well."
Incident report from Springfield Fire Rescue Division Facebook page:
"Just before 0100 on 6/11/2020, B unit was dispatched to 2100 Larch St. on a report of a fire in this building, which was originally built as the Hoppes Manufacturing Co. over 120 years ago. The building now housed a pallet manufacturing factory. First arriving companies found heavy fire already venting through the roof and before it was over, the fire went to a third alarm. Responding companies were E3, E6, E7, T4, T8, R1, M4, M6, Battalion 1, Chief 1, Chief 2, Chief 3, Marshal 1, and Box 27 Associates. The factory building itself was heavily damaged, with only a small part being saved. Larch St is very narrow, and directly across the street is an older residential neighborhood. Many of the houses along Larch suffered radiant heat damage, but quick actions by R1 and T8 on the D side of the factory provided exposure protection hose lines to these homes, and kept them from igniting as well."
