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Crews fight large chemical fire at Advanced Plating in Nashville
Yihyun Jeong, Nashville Tennessean
August 25, 2018
Nashville, TN
Crews responded to a chemical fire at an auto-chrome plating shop in East Nashville on Saturday afternoon.
Firefighters were called to the 2-alarm fire at Advanced Plating in the 1400 block of Cowan Court, shortly before 1:30 p.m., according to the Nashville Fire Department.
No injuries were reported.
Five nearby buildings were evacuated as crews worked to get the fire under control by 3 p.m.
Nashville Fire said crews were working to check that none of the hazardous chemicals entered the nearby Cumberland River.
Here is what Advanced Plating posted on their facebook pages:
As you may have seen today, Advanced Plating has fallen victim to a fire. At this time the cause of the fire is not known, but we do know that half of our facility is a total loss. However, if you follow Advanced Plating, you know that we are no strangers to disasters. We have survived a fire before, as well as the horrific flood of 2010. While it will be a difficult and long road to come back from this, rest assured that we will bounce back, we will rebuild, and we will be back stronger than ever. If disaster has taught us anything over the years, it is that we are resilient and have an amazing support group. Now, communication will be down for awhile as you might have guessed, but please be patient as we access the contents of the building and work to collect and assemble all of the customers parts and pieces. At this point it will be tough to say that we can account for everything, as this happened with zero warning, but we will do everything we can to take care of our customer base. We greatly appreciate everyone’s support and prayers as we sort everything out. As soon as contact is restored, we will let everyone know how we can be reached.