Snack company blaze: Firefighters called to fire
Four fire engines were called to Rugeley Snack Company in the Staffordshire market town at 8.35pm on Tuesday (October 6).
Firefighters spent more than three and a half hours at the site on the Riverside Industrial Estate on Power Station Road, according to Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service.
‘Well alight’ fire
“Firefighters used two breathing apparatus, an aerial ladder platform and one hose reel jet to put out the fire which was located in ducting and roof space and which was well alight,” a spokeswoman said.
Rugeley Snack Company manufactures pork snacks including scratchings and cracking.
An employee said the cause of the fire remains under investigation but an electrical fault may be to blame. “It was just a small fire. It was mainly smoke damage,” she told FoodManufacture.co.uk.
Meanwhile in a separate incident, machinery caught fire at a Rank Hovis flour mill in Manchester on Wednesday morning (October 7).
List of recent fires
- September 26 – Factory making toffee apples for Halloween burnt down in the West Midlands
- September 20 – Huge fire breaks out at a salad factory in North Yorkshire
- August 14 – Powder explosion burnt a worker at a factory in Staffordshire
- August 6 – Fire ravaged a wholesale market in Birmingham
