Saturday night fire breaks out at Cedar Rapids corn milling facility

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Fire crews responded late Saturday night to a fire inside a multi-level industrial corn milling facility on 1st Street SW.

The Cedar Rapids Fire Department was called to the plant just before 11 p.m. after employees reported a fire in one of the building’s starch dryers.

When firefighters arrived, plant staff directed them to the third floor, where the fire was burning inside the equipment…

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