LYNNWOOD — An early morning fire at Linton Industries Inc. Sept. 10 was at first thought of as suspicious. But after a closer look, Lynnwood fire inspectors found that there had been a low-grade explosion in the steel manufacturing warehouse located in the 6000 block of 202nd Street SW in Lynnwood.
Firefighters who responded to the fire made an interior attack of the building and knocked the fire down, said Lt. Glen Webster. At first they noticed a door was ajar, so they thought there had been forceable entry, so they immediately called out the Lynnwood fire marshal’s office, Webster said.
According to fire inspector Leroy McNulty, an air compressor over heated and had a system failure and spewed oil all over. When it reached its ignition temperature it caught on fire and then had a low-grade explosion.
“Which caused the door to pop open and it also blew out a couple of walls,” McNulty said adding, “everything was clearly explained by an explosion.”
Dave Kuhn, plant manager at Linton said, “It really wasn’t a big deal, we didn’t lose that much. The fire stayed in one small corner of the warehouse and firefighters came and put out the rest.”
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