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SUNNYSIDE, Wash. — Firefighters worked into the early-morning hours Thursday to extinguish a fire that destroyed a fruit processing warehouse about two miles north of Sunnyside.
The blaze, which started Wednesday about 7 p.m., engulfed a produce warehouse of Kinsey Farms, located near the corner of Scoon and Independence roads.
The tin and wood building, which was 6,000 square feet, burned until about
3:40 a.m. Thursday and took 28 firefighters from five
stations to manage.
A cause is underdetermined, but Yakima County’s fire marshal was investigating, said Capt. Bo Thomas of Lower Valley Fire District 5.
The Granger Fire Department assisted.
Although the building was a total loss, firefighters were able to save a cold storage facility connected by a conveyor belt. That prevented ammonia and other refrigeration chemicals from exposure to the flames, Thomas said.
Nobody was injured during the fire.
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