Crews estimate they will continue to battle last night’s large commercial fire at an Industrial Way paper mill throughout Wednesday in Longview.
Wood chip piles are fueling the blaze at Nippon Dynawave Packaging at 1701 Industrial Way near the entrance on the Longview side of the Lewis and Clark Bridge and Weyerhaeuser’s gate 4 near Oregon and Industrial ways.
A large plume of smoke could still be seen Wednesday morning.
more at: https://tdn.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/update-with-videos-commercial-fire-at-longview-paper-mill/article_b4c717d2-25de-11ee-a9ff-e7b809c21a04.html
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