By Wendy Perch

Possible Explosion On Willowcale Road

Fire crews respond to possible explosion on Willowcale Road

Jul 28, 2020 | 5:18 AM

PRINCE GEORGE- No injuries reported,but a possible explosion caused some $50,000 damage at an industrial wood pellet manufacturing facility in the 9900 block of Willow Cale Road around 5 last night .Fire crews found a small amount of smoke coming from a conveyor system and quickly applied water to several conveyors which had smoldering wood material inside.

Over the last couple of years, there have been a few calls to the Pacific Bioenergy location. It is something the company is aware of and they say it’s a work in progress.

“We are working on a number of improvements. We recently had a week’s worth of an annual maintenance shutdown where we completed some additional capital improvements and a lot of that went into safety improvements,” said Pacific Bioenergy President & CEO, John Stirling. “It’s an ongoing effort. The system is quite sophisticated and as we are learning about new technologies to detect and prevent issues from happening, we’re applying those.”

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There were no missed shifts following the incident, and Stirling expects the plant to be operational toward the end of the week.