A massive three-alarm fire destroyed a fiberglass manufacturing warehouse in far north Fort Worth on Thursday afternoon, reducing a building firefighters described as longer than a football field to rubble.<\/p>\n
The fire broke out around 2:45 p.m. at F&F Composite in the 5800 block of Egg Farm Road, just off North Main Street.<\/p>\n
Witnesses at the scene said employees inside the manufacturing facility heard a “pop” just before the fire started and quickly evacuated as flames spread through the building.<\/p>\n
F&F Composite employee Vincent Ridenhour was not inside the warehouse when the fire began. After learning about the fire, he rushed to the facility and watched as firefighters battled the flames.<\/p>\n
“I heard it started in the ceiling and by the time they noticed it, it was already too late,” Ridenhour said. “I’m glad everyone is safe. No one got hurt.”<\/p>\n
When firefighters arrived, they initially believed people might still be trapped inside the warehouse. Those concerns were later resolved after crews confirmed everyone had safely evacuated.<\/p>\n
The warehouse manufactures fiberglass landscaping materials and similar products. Firefighters said chemicals stored inside the building added another layer of complexity to the response.<\/p>\n
Craig Trojacek, a spokesperson for the Fort Worth Fire Department, said the warehouse stretched “as long as or longer than a football field.”<\/p>\n
“When you’re on the nozzle, you’re thinking about nothing but putting that fire out and making sure you can find somebody to get them out to safety,” Trojacek said.<\/p>\n
As the fire intensified, the roof began collapsing toward the center of the structure, forcing firefighters to pull crews back and change tactics.<\/p>\n
The extreme North Texas heat also made conditions more difficult for firefighters.<\/p>\n
“When you’re in this gear and fighting fire, that’s very taxing on the body,” Trojacek said. “Mother Nature’s always gonna win, is what I say.”<\/p>\n
Fire crews rotated in and out throughout the afternoon as they battled both the flames and the heat. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A massive three-alarm fire destroyed a fiberglass manufacturing warehouse in far north Fort Worth on Thursday afternoon, reducing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[133102,120,116,124,118,117,133101],"class_list":["post-376415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fighting-fire","tag-firefighters","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-fire-department","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-vincent-ridenhour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}