September 14, 2018
By: Dwayne Page
A fire at Foutch Industries on East Broad Street today (Friday) destroyed an entire chain-on-edge coating production line for brake rotors causing an estimated one million dollars in damage.
The fire started in an enclosed room of the manufacturing facility where the production line was housed though no one was working in that room at the time. How the fire actually started in there has not been determined.
Approximately 100 employees working in other parts of the building were evacuated during the fire. No one was injured.
The Smithville Volunteer Fire Department was dispatched to the scene with mutual aid backup support from members of the DeKalb County Volunteer Fire Department and they contained the blaze to the room where the fire started with no damage to the rest of the manufacturing facility but smoke spread throughout the building.
The Smithville Police Department and DeKalb EMS were also on the scene.