Polk County Fire Rescue
A silo fire in Florida sparked a “dust explosion” that ignited a second silo and a brush fire Thursday night, officials said.
Polk County Fire Rescue said crews responded at around 4:26 p.m. Thursday to a reported silo fire at a business that sells mulch products, located near the intersection of Lasso Lane and Maine Avenue in an industrial area of Lakeland. Firefighters arrived “minutes later” to find smoke coming from a silo.
As crews began working to extinguish the fire, “a dust explosion shot out of the silo,” the fire department said. The explosion spread fire to a second silo and sparked a nearby brush fire…