BREAKING NEWS – Major fire at Pallets N More

UPDATE

Press Release regarding the fire at 7402 Shaw Rd 

At 16:50 Lapeer Central Dispatch received a call from Pallets N More in Goodland Township saying that they had a fire in one of the buildings. Everyone was able to vacate the premises.

Goodland Township and Imlay City fire departments were dispatched for the structure fire. Within one minute, Goodland Twp. Fire Chief Brian Kinzer arrived on scene. At that time, one of the several buildings on the four-acre property was fully involved.

A request for Brown City (Sanilac County), Arcadia Twp., and North Branch Fire Departments was made. Soon afterward a request for the Southeastern Lapeer County Manpower Strike Force was made—Lapeer City, Elba Twp., Hadley Twp., Metamora Twp. Fire Departments.

A request for out-of-county tankers (tenders) was also made. The following fire departments responded:

Huron County:
Harbor Beach, Sigel Twp., Bad Axe, Port Austin and Windsor Twp.

Sanilac County:
Croswell, Delaware Twp., Minden City, Marlette, Moore Twp., Speaker Twp., Elk Twp. and Applegate

St. Clair County:
Berlin Twp. and Mussey Twp.

Lapeer County:
Deerfield Twp., Almont Twp. and Dryden Twp. for additional manpower later in the event.

A total of 27 fire departments responded along with multiple Lapeer County EMS units, Michigan State Police, Parsh Oil & Propane, and DTE.

The four-acre site had several buildings, machinery, semi-trailers, and thousands of wooden pallets. With the tremendous fuel load (wood), initial firefighting tactics were a challenge due to extreme heat. The entire site was fully engulfed in fire within 15 minutes of the initial call.

There is no estimate of the loss at this posting.

There were no injuries during the entire event.

All units cleared the scene at 0300 the following day

Chief Brian Kinzer
Goodland Township Fire Department

 

BREAKING NEWS – A multi-county fire department response was required to douse flames during a major fire at Pallets N More on Shaw Rd in Goodland Twp. The blaze broke out just before 5pm Thursday.  Smoke from the fire was reported seen from Macomb County to the south and Huron County to the north. We’ll have more on the fire in next week’s Tri City Times. – Dave Fredrick, Managing Editor.