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    Fire Guts Tainted New Jersey Plant

    April 20, 2005
    A suspicious, five-alarm blaze engulfed the former W.R. Grace & Co. factory early yesterday, destroying a building being scrutinized as a possible health hazard after more than 40 years of asbestos contamination.
    AP Photo/The Times of Trenton, Frank Jacobs III
    Hamilton, N.J. firefighters carry out an albino python, measuring about 15-feet in length, Wednesday, April 20, 2005, that survived a fire at an industrial plant in Hamilton, N.J. The snake, beloning to a person who worked at the factory, survived the fire that on Tuesday, destroyed the plant formerly owned by W.R. Grace Zonolite.
    Hamilton, N.J. firefighters carry out an albino python, measuring about 15-feet in length, Wednesday, April 20, 2005, that survived a fire at an industrial plant in Hamilton, N.J. The snake, beloning to a person who worked at the factory, survived the fire that on Tuesday, destroyed the plant formerly owned by W.R. Grace Zonolite.
    HAMILTON - A suspicious, five-alarm blaze engulfed the former W.R. Grace & Co. factory early yesterday, destroying a building being scrutinized as a possible health hazard after more than 40 years of asbestos contamination.

    More than a dozen investigators from federal, state and local law enforcement descended upon the fire scene, but officials would not say if they suspected the blaze, which caused no injuries, had been deliberately set.

    Last night, officials were calling the cause "undetermined" until they could get into the still-smoldering building to investigate.

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