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Fire Investigators to Be Back On Site Soon

By 250 News

Monday, June 16, 2008 04:00 AM

Prince George, B.C. – Fire investigators expect to be back on the scene at North Central Plywood today or tomorrow to continue their investigation into the May 26th blaze that levelled the Canfor mill.
“Engineers will be on site today” says Fire Chief Jeff Rowland “They will take a look and let us know if the site is safe enough to continue”
The investigation was halted a little over a week ago at the advice of WorkSafe BC which said the site was not safe for investigators.
As for pin pointing the cause of the fire, Rowland says it’s hard to say how long that will take. “We could get on site and identify the source right away, or we may have to send materials or equipment off for testing, we just can’t speculate on how long it might take.”
When the fire started, it was believed to have ignited in one of the dryers on site.
 

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Comment Posted by: He speaks on June 16 2008 10:20 AM
Every couple of years the place was catching on fire. Sure would like the fire history, and why they did not take steps from reoccuring.

If I was the insurance company, I would be taking Canfor to task on it.
Comment Posted by: Bridge on June 16 2008 10:28 AM
Why the big deal. Why not just talk to sme of the employees and they can tell them how the fire started. But then I guess these investigators have never talked to people its more fun to blow our tax dollars into an investigation.

Cheers
Comment Posted by: RUEZ on June 16 2008 10:43 PM
How would the employees know what started the fire at NCP? There are no employees working on or near the roof.
Comment Posted by: Jim13135 on June 17 2008 7:44 AM
Are you kidding; they had another fire at the Intercon chips area again on the weekend, but I guess the employees have no idea on why they are starting...couldn't possibly have anything to do with a lack of maintenance?? If you don't leave combustibles around your wood stove why would Canfor leave wood dust around their equipment??