A blaze broke out around 4:30 pm Thursday at Sexton Lumber in Bloomfield, NL, on the Bonavista Peninsula. The fire was in the dried bark/sawdust holding building on the outside edge of the property, and the sawmill, kiln, planer mill, drying plant, office, and inventory sections were all undamaged.
However the company lost a complete drawing facility, the holding facility is completely gone, and all the conveying equipment was destroyed. Sexton suspects there was a malfunction in one of the dryers that then leaked into the main system.
Several years ago the company’s planer mill operation was burnt to the ground.
Elsewhere, several fire departments responded to the scene of a structure fire Wednesday at a southern Indiana sawmill.
The fire, south of English, IN, was contained to the mill building.
No one was at the sawmill when the fire broke out overnight.
No injuries were reported.
