QUILCENE — A fire destroyed a maintenance building containing diesel and propane at Penny Creek Quarry about two miles south of Quilcene this afternoon.
No one was injured in the blaze at the quarry on Penny Creek Road off state Highway 104, said Quilcene Fire Department Chief Robert ‘Mo’ Moser.
The 40-foot-by-60-foot wooden shed was fully engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived after receiving a 9-1-1 emergency call at 12:47 p.m., said Moser, whose district was the lead agency fighting the fire.
There were no injuries, said Bill Beezley, spokesman for East Jefferson Fire Rescue, which assisted Quilcene along with Brinnon and Discovery Bay fire departments and Port Ludlow Fire and Rescue.
An investigation into the cause of the fire will begin Wednesday, said Moser, who planned to keep a crew at the site tonight to guard it from interference and watch for flare-ups.
The building contained a 2,000 gallon diesel tank, acetylene tanks and propane tanks.
“We had a couple of small explosions but nothing big,” Moser said.
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Earlier story
QUILCENE — East Jefferson Fire Rescue reports a fire ongoing now at the Penny Creek Quarry south of Quilcene.
Firefighters from a number of districts are on scene now at the quarry on Penny Creek Road off state Highway 104, said Bill Beezley, spokesman for East Jefferson Fire-Rescue at about 2 p.m.
“It looks like a processing structure for the quarry went up in flames,” Beezley said.
“The building is completely destroyed.”
“We’re still knocking it down,” he added. “There’s a lot of smoke.”
The fire began sometime between noon and 1 p.m., according to information from KOMO-TV.
The cause is not known now.
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