Belden Brick building, workers fine, machine heavily damaged in electric fire - WJER Radio 100.9FM & 1450AM

Belden Brick building, workers fine, machine heavily damaged in electric fire - WJER Radio 100.9FM & 1450AM

SUGARCREEK – No one was hurt, but a large piece of equipment sustained hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage in an electrical fire at the Belden Brick Plant 2 in Sugarcreek early Thursday morning. Sugarcreek Fire Chief John Meek was first on the scene. He says he encountered a screener used early on in the brick-making process fully engulfed in flames due to an electrical short. Meek says burning rubber created a thick cloud of black smoke …