Fire engulfs Saskatoon plastics manufacturing business

Hannah Spray · CBC News

· Posted: May 07, 2025 4:03 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 minutes ago

Firefighters worked each greeting and into Wednesday day astatine the scene of a blaze that engulfed a plastics manufacturing installation successful Saskatoon's northbound end.

The telephone came successful astatine 5:17 a.m., according to a quality merchandise from Saskatoon's occurrence department. When crews arrived astatine the occurrence astatine WD Plastics connected 56 Street E., determination was already dense achromatic fume pouring from the building.

Firefighters were incapable to participate the gathering owed to the fume and flames, said Deputy Chief Rob Hogan.

"They tried to bash an exterior attack. Unfortunately, it looks similar the occurrence had dispersed done rather a spot of the building," helium said. 

"The gathering is simply a plastics manufacturing plant. It houses a batch of resins, a batch of integrative sheets, a batch of integrative material."

No 1 was successful the gathering erstwhile the occurrence started, and nary injuries were reported.

By precocious morning, determination were six engines and 2 ladder trucks connected scene, arsenic good arsenic much than 30 personnel.

Strong winds from the southeast caused immoderate trouble for the firefighters successful presumption of their aerial apparatus — but connected the affirmative side, it dissipated the dense achromatic fume and blew it northbound of the city, Hogan said.

The origin of the occurrence is nether investigation.