February 9, 2014
Fire at Winchester plant East Alton Fire Dept./Facebook
Early Sunday morning, fire broke out at the Olin Corporation‘s Winchester Ammunition plant in East Alton, Ill.
East Alton Fire Chief Randy Nelson told KMOX:
“Units arrived on scene to find heavy smoke and fire to the structure, with a number of exposures.”
Fire crews from East Alton, Olin Brass, Wood River, Alton, Bethalto, Roxana, Hartford and Godfrey departments, all responded to the two-alarm fire in the 600 block of Powder Mill Road.