Several area fire departments helped douse a fire in an elevator shaft at Bunge Grain Wednesday morning, reports The News-Gazette.
“One of the elevator shafts caught fire because we believe an electrical motor went bad,” said Homer Fire Chief Don Happ.
“That led to a small grain explosion which caught the grain on fire and the elevator shaft on fire.”
No one was hurt and firefighters had all the right equipment to take on the fire in shaft, which Happ said is 125 feet high. He did not have a damage estimate but speculated the company would need to replace a lot of equipment.
