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[Polak]

Fire prompts evacuation at Princeton Toyota plant

PRINCETON - Some workers were evacuated from the Toyota factory in southwestern Indiana after the company say a fire broke out in an air-handling unit.

Officials at the factory near Princeton say the evacuation happened Tuesday morning after smoke was noticed in a body weld shop. Crews found the fire inside a heating, ventilation and air conditioning unit and workers were allowed back inside the factory after about 20 minutes.

WFIE-TV reports a couple hundred people were evacuated from the factory some 20 miles north of Evansville that has about 4,100 total workers.

Did you make it out? Sounds like a news worthy event. Must have been terrifying!

 

[Gumby]

Got any smoke damaged 5.7s?

 

[booty]

The big fire consisted of a HVAC unit in East Body Weld causing smoke to fill up a part of body weld. I work in west assembly which is under the same roof(4 million sqft. plus buiding) but about 1/4 to 1/2 a mile away. Alarms sounded in whole plant but only the affected area was evacuated. We never stopped working. Smoke was cleared in about 20 min. and everyone returned to the plant. Just another day in paradise, no big deal. Body weld is just abunch of steel and robots nothing for the smoke to hurt.