Bales of cellulose catch fire at St. Elmo business

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — The Chattanooga Fire Department says firefighters spent Tuesday morning working to put out bales of cellulose that were on fire at a business in St. Elmo.

The call came in to firefighters just before 7 a.m. at ADM Southern Cellulose at 105 West 45th Street.

When fire companies arrived at 6:50 a.m. they discovered a fire in a trailer full of 600 pound bales of cellulose material on fire.

An employee using a self contained breathing apparatus used a fork truck to pull the bales out the trailer so that fire crews could wet down the smoldering bales.

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Fire crews using hand held line and fire resistant foam wet down and broke apart the bales to insure all flames were extinguished. No one was hurt.