Fire forces evacuation of Vaughan industrial business

Four fire trucks put out blaze, no dollar loss

Yorkregion.com
July 19, 2016
By Tim Kelly

A Creditstone Road industrial plant had to be evacuated Monday night after a small fire broke out around 11 p.m.

The minor blaze led to four fire trucks arriving on scene for about half an hour and a two-hour delay in operations, as 40 employees safely left the premises of Normpac, a manufacturer of corrugated and solid fibre boxes.

Andrew Zvanitajs, deputy fire chief of operations for Vaughan Fire and Rescue Service, said, “they have a hopper collection system that contains fine particles of excess paper and they had a small, smoldering fire in one of their hopper-containment systems. The fire was limited to the collection system and part of the belt on the containment system. Firefighters got in there and used a dry-chemical extinguisher to put the fire out.”

Zvanitajs added there was minimal impact to the business with no dollar loss.

“They were interrupted two to three hours. We were on scene for an hour and a half. We committed four trucks for 25 minutes, left two trucks to finish up and we will probably send an investigator over there today to make sure it doesn’t happen again,” said Zvanitajs.