Nestle Plant Damaged in Fire and Other Food Industry News

A Nestle frozen foods manufacturing plant in Jonesboro, AR was heavily damaged in a fire that started on March 16 and burned into the following day, television news station KAIT reported.

Crews were dispatched to the scene at about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday and worked into Thursday morning to contain the flames, the broadcaster said. Workers managed to evacuate the structure without incident.

Jonesboro Fire Chief Kevin Miller told KAIT that a sizeable portion of the structure received “significant damage.”

The cause of the blaze is unknown.

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