A manufacturing plant which caught fire early Monday morning near Brundidge is likely a total loss.
Glenn Adkins, incident commander with the Brundidge Volunteer Fire Department, said 50 to 60 volunteer firefighters from a dozen fire departments responded to Carter Brothers Manufacturing after a fire was reported at 3:35 a.m. Monday.
Adkins said it appears the fire started in the finished product area of the building or the shipping area. There were no injuries, though several firefighters received treatment for heat exhaustion.
Carter Brother Manufacturing located in the Hamilton’s Crossroads community along Highway 231, south of Brundidge, makes carts, buggies and minibikes.
Sharon Fortune, of Brundidge, who is the shipping manager for the company, said approximately 65 employees work for the plant, which has been in business since the 1930s.
Employees had been on a week-long, company-wide vacation, which is done each year. They were supposed to have come back to work on Monday morning.
Adkins said the state fire marshal and the Alabama Department of Environmental Management are investigating the cause of the blaze. Adkins said the plant caught fire in 2000, and was considered a complete loss then too.
During Monday’s fire, Alabama state troopers re-directed traffic off Highway 231 and away from the scene.
For more on this story, read Tuesday’s Dothan Eagle.
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