Firefighters Respond to Blaze at Missouri Pet Food PlantFirefighters Respond to Blaze at Missouri Pet Food Plant

Crews responded to a Joplin, MO pet food manufacturing plant early Tuesday morning after an oven used to produce dog biscuits at the facility caught on fire, the Joplin Fire Department said in a news release. 

Receiving a report of a fire on the roof of the Hampshire Pet Products facility at about 1:50 a.m., firefighters arrived at about 2 a.m. and determined that the oven was the source of the fire. In total, 18 firefighters responded to the incident. 

“The cause of the fire was due to a malfunction in the oven. An estimated 4000 pounds of dog biscuits were in the oven at the time of the fire,” the fire department’s release said. 

Hampshire Pet Products’ 220,000-sq-ft plant in Joplin features three processing lines – mixing, forming, and baking – and six lines for packaging and assembling, according to the company’s website. Some 200 workers are employed at the facility. 

Firefighters put down the flames and cleared the scene by 3:30 a.m. No injuries were reported during the incident.

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