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Fire Rips Through Company’s Dump Trucks
August 5, 2013
The Florida State Fire Marshal is investigating a Sunday evening fire that destroyed multiple dump trucks in Cantonment. The fire, reported at 6:50 p.m., sent a column of black smoke into the sky that was visible for miles.
Over a dozen dump trucks were parked in a row in a lot at the Roads, Inc. headquarters on Stone Boulevard, just off Highway 29. At least four of the trucks were totally destroyed by the fire, while others were damaged.
Multiple fire stations from Cantonment, Molino and Pensacola responded to the blaze, working rapidly to protect and prevent other dump trucks from becoming involved the fire.
There were no injuries reported.
The cause of the fire is under investigation by the Florida State Fire Marshal.
Pictured: Multiple dump trucks were destroyed by fire Sunday evening at Roads, Inc. on Stone Boulevard in Cantonment. Reader submitted photos for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
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6 Responses to “Fire Rips Through Company’s Dump Trucks”
@infoo God Bless your Dad and the other drivers for taking a day off so the others can still have some work! I know that you are proud of him. Heck, I’m proud of him and the others & I don’t even know them.
The folks at Roads Inc. sounds like real good ppl to me. If our community would pull together like this more often (like in the old days) we would be so much better for it.
Prayers for Roads Inc and their employees.
About a year ago saw Roads Inc. putting in drainage pipes, much needed, in my neighborhood and then doing sidewalk work.
Called as needing my 500+ foot gravel driveway reworked as age and Ivan had taken a toll on it.
Chase came out, very professional and friendly and understood what I needed and we agreed on a good price.
In the next few days I had a new driveway and it is great thanks to the crew that worked on it.
Would recommend Roads Inc. to anyone, Good People All.
Know they’ll come back from this big loss of equipment.
Insurance is never enough to cover all costs.
Mostly, hope the drivers and others remain employed with Roads and do not lose any time and salary…..Tough Times and Tough Hang In There People.
Thank god noone was hurt . my dad works there i just talked to him an he said all the drivers are coming together n taking a day off and all so the ones without trucks n are out of work can work !
The drivers shouldn’t be without a job , their is enough things to do around the office and New plant and other divisions of the company they can do till they receive new trucks . Not a reason to lay someone off , they have a family too ! Hopefully this isn’t the case .
thank you michael weaver. it’s looking like 5 drivers will be w/o a job for a while. no-one was hurt.
wow , hate to see this. real nice equipment and good folks. now people may be out of a job , atleast for awhile. that’s alot of money that went up in smoke . even if insurance pays off , it may be months or a year before the trucks can be replaced. hope no one was hurt in this including the fire fighters.