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Factory back up after fire
It wasn't business as usual, but everyone was back at work Monday at an Arborg furnace factory that was damaged by fire on Friday.
"They're doing different jobs, but they're all back here, so that's good," Grant Cairns, vice-president and general manager of the Pro-Fab Group of Companies, said of the roughly 60 employees who work in the company's head office and production plant outside of Arborg.
The offices and plant for its furnace-making subsidiary, Pro-Fab Industries Ltd., both received heavy smoke damage after a fire broke out Friday in the exhaust ventilation system.
No one was injured and Cairns said fire damage was limited to one corner of the building. But there was heavy smoke damage everywhere else, he said, which wreaked havoc with computer and telephone systems.
"The entire facility is covered in soot, and that's what's messy. But we've had cleaners going around the clock since Friday night."
Cairns said it's the company's busiest time of year because this is when a lot of its wood-burning indoor and outdoor furnaces and boilers get shipped.
Cairns said it will likely be two weeks before production resumes. Any orders that need to be filled before then are being redirected to sister plants in Alberta and Tennessee.
-- Murray McNeill
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition October 2, 2012 B6
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