Fire Crews Called to GM Lordstown Assembly

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Breaking: Fire Crews Called to GM Lordstown Assembly
Local media crews reporting multiple fire departments responding to Lordstown complex.
January 4, 2013

According to local affiliate coverage in the Lordstown, Ohio area, multiple fire crews have been dispatched to General Motors' Lordstown assembly plant. No details are known at this time, other than that police scanners have reported a structural fire at around 9:00 PM local time.

The plant has been on holiday shutdown since prior to Christmas.

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UPDATE:

A dispatcher at the Lordstown police department said several people were taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation.

Sources said the fire is in the final line area of the plant. The plant is still closed for the holidays, but there are maintenance workers at the plant.

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[nruggiero]

I hope everyone is ok.

[PositiveAboutGM]

UPDATE: Cause of fire at GM Lordstown determined
January 4, 2013

LORDSTOWN, Ohio - Lordstown fire officials believe they know what caused Thursday afternoon's fire at the General Motors Lordstown plant.

The fire broke out around 2:15 p.m. in the paint shop area.

Officials say a private contractor using a diesel- powered pressure washer routed the hot diesel exhaust to an unused paint booth, igniting fumes from left over paint.

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It will be reopen Sunday night.

http://www.wfmj.com/story/16185624/u...own-determined

[richmond2000]

The plant has been on holiday shutdown since prior to Christmas.

I hope that means nobody was there except security and maybe maintenance reducing the chance of injury

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UPDATE: Cause of fire at GM Lordstown determined
January 4, 2013

LORDSTOWN, Ohio - Lordstown fire officials believe they know what caused Thursday afternoon's fire at the General Motors Lordstown plant.

The fire broke out around 2:15 p.m. in the paint shop area.

I've been listening to the live police scanner feed there...2:15 makes zero sense. The affiliates need to check their facts.

[PositiveAboutGM]

I've been listening to the live police scanner feed there...2:15 makes zero sense. The affiliates need to check their facts.

I'm just posting what they reported.

[V8GMT360 Guy]

Officials say a private contractor using a diesel- powered pressure washer routed the hot diesel exhaust to an unused paint booth, igniting fumes from left over paint.

If that is the case.... what an idiot.

[69project]

Does this mean that Diesel Smoke Gray will now be a color option for the Cruze....

[richmond2000]

Does this mean that Diesel Smoke Gray will now be a color option for the Cruze....

flame red?

[Quixote88]

Inferno Orange?

[swagled]

Just what we needed, even more color constraints.... People already complain here about all the white-grey-black selections.

Can you even imagine the liability claim for these repairs? Even if the contractor had liability insurance, his maximum may not cover it.

[F14CRAZY]

Diesel exhaust seems like one of the last things you'd want being pumped into a paint booth. Aren't they basically clean rooms these days?

[Ed753]

Inferno Orange?

How about Carbon Black?


Reminds of the time, we hired "Three Stooges" to do some painting at the Ford Dealership, they were cleaning the oil-based paint out of the brushes in the bathroom sink, with paint thinner smoking cigarettes.

[Kennyboy]

This means I can get my Cruze in smoky haze colors now?

Anyways, the contractor was probably getting the job done fast, and didn't take any safety pre-cautions.

[RedSkyBlackDream]

I'm sitting in my chair crying at all of you guys and these paint color jokes!!!