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November 25, 2005
Fire at Olneyville mill building being probed
PROVIDENCE -- A fire of unexplained origin this morning destroyed some of the contents of part of a brick mill building in Olneyville being used by a plastics-manufacturing company, the Fire Department said.
The fire broke out on the second floor of a two-story building at 40 Agnes St., at the intersection of Oak Street, occupied by Mars 2000 Plastics Inc., according to Deputy Assistant Fire Chief J. Curtis Varone.
"It appears that we have multiple points of origin" and the cause of the fire is under investigation, the deputy assistant chief said.
-- Journal staff writer Gregory Smith
"The call came in from a passerby who observed smoke coming from the building" at about 9 a.m., Varone said. "We never received an alarm."
The fire destroyed plastic parts and bundles of folded cardboard boxes but did not damage the structure or manufacturing equipment. Mars Plastics was not in operation yesterday.
"It had the potential to be a major fire had it not been for the sprinklers," he said. "It was held in check by four sprinklers until we arrived."
A cleaning person and other tenants in the building were evacuated, and there were no injuries. It took firefighters about an hour to get the blaze under control.
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