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OXFORD, Ala. — There was a fire at the Tull Chemical Company facility in Oxford late Friday night. According to the city, firefighters were dispatched around 11:14 p.m. to the fire.
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A similar advisory was also shared by the Cumbria Fire & Rescue Services on its X account. Police said the incident was reported around 12:44 a.m. local time on Wednesday. It did not say the cause ...
A backdraft can occur when a compartment fire has little or no ventilation. Due to this, little or no oxygen can flow into the compartment. Then, because fires reduce oxygen, the oxygen concentration decreases. When the oxygen concentration becomes too low to support combustion, some or all of the combustion switches to pyrolysis.
By 11:00pm, the main fire was extinguished, and by 2:30am, the last secondary fires were extinguished. Pockets of fire remained until the early hours of the morning, some 15 hours after it began. 60 firemen with eight appliances remained on duty for several more days. The fire had spread rapidly due to the large cavities and voids in the roof.
Five people, including a police officer, were injured early Friday in a house fire in Oxford, Massachusetts.
Although reporting focused on residential buildings, other types were also affected, such as the 52-bed trauma unit at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, which closed temporarily due to concerns over flammable cladding on the building and other "serious and embedded" fire safety issues. [12]