Machine fire damages Warren business

Warren Fire Department officials say that a forklift mishap caused a fire that damaged the MPC Metallurgical Processing building last week.

No one was injured in the blaze. Fire personnel were dispatched to the building on Warner Avenue near Nine Mile Road on May 16 at approximately 11:30 p.m. in response to reports of a commercial fire. Employees met the firefighters outside of the building and indicated that a machine inside the building was on fire.

All employees were safely evacuated from the building before the arrival of the Warren Fire Department; no one was injured in the fire.

Fire crews located the machine that was on fire and brought that under control as well as extinguishing a fire that had spread from the machine to the roof.

A preliminary investigation shows that a forklift operator accidentally struck a hydraulic line inside the building which caused hydraulic fluid to leak and spray on several surfaces including the machine that caught fire.

The Warren Fire Department had the fire under control within 30 minutes and fire officials say that the incident appears to be accidental.