Steffas says that the fire has died down considerably since Wednesday morning, but is still giving off toxic smoke.
“We are making headway on it,” Steffas said. “We still have fumes, but nothing like it was this morning.”
Unable to use their regular fire hoses, firefighters are using unique techniques to put out the blaze. Firefighters will continue to use so-called “high flow water” to help cool off the batteries, and then plan to smother it with cement.
“We’re going to cover it with cement and smother that fire,” Steffas said. “Once we put cement down, we hope that’s going to smother it.”
An evacuation order remains in place for parts of far southwest suburban Morris after a massive fire at an industrial building housing hundreds of thousands of pounds of lithium ion batteries released plumes of smoke and poisonous fumes into the air. At around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, the Grundy County IL Emergency Management Agency ordered anyone who lives in the 900…
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