The fire filled the building, which runs several hundred yards along Avocado Street, with smoke, and a thick, aromatic cloud drifted across both lanes of nearby I-91.
A plumb of smoke rises about the warehouse on Avocado Street. The fire started in a peanut roasting machine.SPRINGFIELD - A fire that started in a giant peanut roasting machine filled an Avocado Street warehouse with smoke Tuesday and causing an unknown amount of damage to the building and inventory.
The fire was reported at 10:04 p.m., at Hampton Farms, one of several businesses located in the long warehouse building at 105 Avocado St.
Hampton Farms dry roasts and packages peanuts for retail sales.
The fire filled the building, which runs several hundred yards along Avocado Street, with smoke, and a thick, aromatic cloud drifted across both lanes of nearby I-91.
No one was injured in the fire. Employees who were on duty were able to get outside safely, said Fire Department spokesman Dennis Leger.
Springfield firefighters set up a fan to ventilate some of the smoke from the Hampton Farms warehouse following Tuesday's fireThe fire was knocked down pretty quickly, but Leger said it would take a while to ventilate all the smoke out of the one-story warehouse. Firefighters were likely to be on scene for hours, he said.
“I’m seeing smoke running the length of the building. Smoke damage could be considerable,” Leger said.
The fire was reported a little more than an hour after firefighters put out a blaze in a vacant building at 97 Marble St.
Avocado Street is located between the Connecticut River and Interstate 91 in the city's Brightwood neighborhood.