$21M box plant fire continues to burn
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February 12, 2008

$21M box plant fire continues to burn

AUBURNDALE -- A spectacular fire that lit up the night sky Monday and gutted a cardboard box company's warehouse and manufacturing plant  continued to burn today, The Ledger in Lakeland reports. Firefighters were pouring 180,000 gallons of water an hour on the structure. Firefigthers were expected to be on the scene all day. No one was injured in the fire, but the loss is estimated at as much as $21-million.

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