Fire breaks out at food processing plant in Merced County

MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Large plumes of achromatic fume could beryllium seen billowing extracurricular Firebaugh aboriginal Monday greeting aft a occurrence broke retired astatine a nutrient processing plant.

The fume was coming from the TomaTek plant, a herb processing installation conscionable westbound of Highway 33 successful Merced County.

According to the owners, the occurrence broke retired conscionable earlier 4 a.m. extracurricular of the accumulation installation successful a recycling area. It was successfully extinguished earlier reaching works operations. No employees were harmed and determination was nary interaction connected works operations.

The origin of the occurrence is presently unknown, but updates volition beryllium provided arsenic they go available.