Plastic warehouse fire finally smothered

CHAMPION — The Champion fire chief lifted a voluntary evacuation this morning after workers smothered the last of the fire and smoke from a plastics warehouse fire on Kincaid East Road.

Chief John Hickey said the workers hired by InterGroup International Ltd. to cover and remove the remaining material covered the last of it by about 11 p.m. Wednesday.

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