Shrewsbury Fire Dept. Responds To Fire In Supercon Acid Room

SHREWSBURY, MA — he Shrewsbury Fire Department responded to a fire at Supercon, Inc. early Thursday morning. Fire officials received a call about a fire in the company's acid room. The acid room contains open top acid tanks where coils of wire are washed as part of the company’s manufacturing process.

Firefighters noticed light smoke in the building’s loading dock area and the building’s fire alarm and sprinkler systems were activated.

Firefighters metered the building’s main entrance, acid room and loading dock for dangerous or explosive gases and used a pole camera to get a visual of the acid room to try to find the fire. The meter gave negative readings in all parts of the building measured and the camera showed no fire.

Once firefighters got inside they saw the fire had been put out by the sprinkler system — there were no leaking chemicals and no risk of contamination in the room. The State Hazmat Team was called to the scene and deemed the building clear for operations around 5:30 a.m.

“This fire was quickly extinguished with help from the building’s sprinkler system,” said Chief Vuona. “Thankfully there was no resulting hazmat incident or chemical related fire and the situation was quickly resolved.”

An investigation into the cause of the fire is underway by the Shrewsbury Fire Department and State Fire Marshal’s Office.