Video: Two-alarm fire in Wilmington, Massachusetts destroys glass company.
Fire destroyed the Contract Glass Service building on Andover Street in Wilmington, Massachusetts in the middle of the day Wednesday. It was reported as a small electrical panel fire that employees tried to contain. First arriving firefighters found fire through the roof.
Wilmington Fire Chief Ed Bradbury says it didn’t help that the structure was built before sprinkler systems were required.
Chief Bradbury said, “Lack of sprinklers here allowed this fire to essentially go unchecked until we arrived.”
The chief says because of the extensive damage large equipment had to be brought in to dismantle the building so crews could put out all the hot spots.
Chief Bradbury said, “What became a real big problem for us was the roof had collapsed down and created protected areas that we had to get at in order to fully extinguish the fire.”
