12-03-2004, 10:57 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: At the Birkebeiner
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We had a fire yesterday at a butter plant in New Ulm, Minnesota.
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Nearly 180 employees of the AMPI plant, one of the nation's largest butter packagers, were put out of work at least temporarily after a fire that began in a cooling storage area Wednesday night destroyed about half the building, sending an estimated 1 million pounds of melted butter coursing down city streets and sewers in this southern Minnesota city.
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The butter that escaped eventually worked its way to the Minnesota River, several blocks away.
Neve said MPCA officials arrived on the scene late Wednesday. By midday Thursday they had, through the use of containment booms, recovered some of the butter that had made its way to the water.
"Some butter got to the river, but we got some of it back," Neve said. "The good news is, we do not consider this to be a significant environmental problem."
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More here: http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/5115140.html
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