Two-Alarm Fire Burns Thousands Of Cardboard Boxes At Stockton Warehouse
STOCKTON (CBS13) – A packaging warehouse packed full of cardboard boxes is still smoldering after a two-alarm fire broke out at the facility this morning, according toStocktonfire fighters.
The fire broke out at SeaCa Packaging at2299 Stewart Streethousing around 8:00 a.m.
Stocktonfire fighters say a maintenance worker saw a flood-light pop this morning out in the yard with the hot shards of glass landing in a pile of cardboard.
Plant workers tried using extinguishers but the fire quickly spread from pallets that were stacked up against the outside wall to inside the building.
Workers estimate there are 200,000 boxes stored on the pallets and that they lost 30,000 of them.
"Fortunately it looked like most of the machinery was saved," said plant employee Brian Croggins.
Workers credit the fire department for saving the equipment. Fire fighters initially feared half the building was destroyed but now say the damage is contained to a corner in the back part of the structure.
