The West Virginia State Fire Marshal remains on scene in Marshall County today to try and determine the cause of a fire at a warehouse.
The blaze erupted around 11:30 a.m. Sunday at Swierkos Enterprises Inc.in the Washington Lands community along Route 2 south of Moundsville. The warehouse holds a number of materials which are distributed wholesale to various businesses around the state.
Marshall County Director of Emergency Services Tom Hart said the material stored there aren’t toxic unless they are on fire. The structure was fully involved in flames when fire crews arrived.
“We had 21 fire departments from a five county area in both West Virginia and Ohio on scene,” said Hart.
The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection was also on scene and continues to monitor air and water quality from the fire. There was a shelter-in-place put into effect initially, but that was lifted after the fire was finally under control. Throughout the night the fire kept rekindling. Crews returned and called in an excavator to tear apart some of the debris to douse the hot spots. The fire continued to smolder a day later.
Nobody was injured and a cause for the fire is still not known.