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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Fire Breaks Out at Adhesive Manufacturing Plant

All five Wayne fire companies responded to the blaze.

All five fire companies put out a fire Monday evening at a facility that contained large vats of flammable industrial solvents, authorities said. Shortly before 2 p.m., Fire Companies 1, 2, and 5 were dispatched to Clifton Adhesives on Burgess Place off of Route 23 South for a reported fire alarm, said Fire Commissioner Steve Toth. Clifton Adhesives manufactures special industrial adhesives and coatings. John Gabriel, chief of Company 2, was first on the scene and found heavy smoke and flames coming from inside a mixing room that contained large vats filled with the flammable solvents, Toth said. Companies 3 and 4 were also dispatched to the scene. Using foam, the first firefighters inside the building, with the aid of the fire suppression…

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