A fire broke out in the storage room of a dairy plant in Portage, Wisconsin Monday, causing butter to melt and fill a historic canal nearby.
"When we first tried to go up the stairs to that part that collapsed, this stuff, the butter was running down like 3 inches thick on the steps so our guys were up to their knees trying to go up the steps to get to the top, and they’re trying to drag the hose line, the hose line got so full of butter they couldn’t hang onto it anymore," Haase said.The Fire Department later determined that the blaze had started in the room where butter was being stored.
Crews extinguished the fire before it could spread past the firewalls and throughout the building. A hazmat team was called in to contain the runoff into the storm sewers and the canal using a boom and other absorbents.
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