Incident number: 2023-04230
Type of emergency: Cooking fire, confined to container
Incident date: 6/19/2023
Incident time: 5:43 a.m.
Address/location: 265 Cliff St.
Occupied? Yes
Owner: Post Foods
Probable cause, if known: Cereal clogging up hopper
Structure type: Concrete
Construction type: Fire-resistive
Estimated property damage: Unknown
Estimated contents damage: Unknown
Location/extent of damage: Inside cereal hopper
Hazardous materials involved?: NA
Specialized rescues?: NA
Vehicles involved: NA
Injuries
None
Fatalities
None
Other information: Fire crews arrived to find smoke coming from the fourth floor of Post Foods, Building 4. Engine 3 and Rescue 2 made an interior attack and quickly extinguished the fire that was inside the cereal hopper.
Crews also checked for extension on multiple floors of the building, and found none. No one was injured.
The probable cause of the fire is due to cereal clogging the container it was in.