Firefighters Tackle Manufacturing Plant Blaze in Shingle Springs, California

On February 11, 2005 at 0423 hours the El Dorado County Fire District, Camino, California (ECF) was dispatched to an oven fire at the Brucia-Naturex facility in the Shingle Springs Business Park. Brucia manufactures bulk health food supplements for distribution worldwide.

While enroute the Emergency Command Center upgraded the initial dispatch to a full first alarm commercial response. A first alarm commercial response brings five (5) engines, one (1) ladder, one (1) air/light unit, one (1) ALS medic unit and one (1) Battalion Chief.

Engine 28 arrived in approximately five minutes and found a 100