Idaho Wood Pellet Plant Burns to Ground | Firehouse
Wood Pellet Plant Burns to Ground in Idaho Kathy Hedberg On Aug 5, 2014 Source: Lewiston Tribune, Idaho Aug. 05--GRANGEVILLE -- A wood pellet manufacturing building was destroyed by fire late Monday about a mile north of here along U.S. Highway 95. The main production building owned by Rocky Canyon Pellet Company caught fire about 6 p.m. Monday, said Grangeville Rural Fire Chief Danny Tackett, and burned to the ground within less than three hours. The company makes pellets for wood stoves. "It had a head start on us," Tackett said Monday night. "There was a lot of dust inside the building. It was an old building; it used to be an old horse barn." This is the fourth time in the past eight or nine years, Tackett said, that the fire department has been called to a fire at the location. Adjacent buildings, including a residence, were not harmed, he said, and no one was hurt in the fire. Equipment and stacks of pellets inside the bu...