Columbia firefighters battle overnight blaze at concrete plant

An early morning fire Friday damaged a building at a Columbia concrete plant.

Firefighters responded to Thomas Concrete shortly before 4:30 a.m. following reports that fire and black smoke could be seen billowing from a building on the property, Columbia fire officials said.

Crews arrived to find a storage area on the property, located in the 1700 block of Peeples Street in northern Columbia, engulfed in flames.

Firefighters knocked down a bulk of the fire and brought the scene under control within minutes, officials said. No one was injured and the cause of the fire is under investigation.

A spokesman for the fire department said he didn’t know how much damage the storage unit had sustained.

Zak Koeske

The State

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Zak Koeske is a projects reporter for The State. He previously covered state government and politics for the paper. Before joining The State, Zak covered education, government and policing issues in the Chicago area. He’s also written for publications in his native Pittsburgh and the New York/New Jersey area.