A fire and resulting explosion has destroyed a shipping facility belonging to Greenberg Smoked Turkey, located in Tyler, Texas. Nobody was injured in the fire, which occurred on November 6, but the company has been forced to halt production for the remainder of 2020.
According to the Dallas Morning News, the fire started in one of the company’s facilities due to a mechanical failure. The fire spread to one of the company’s freezers, which was storing 87,000 turkeys, and caused the unit to explode and burn the inventory and nearby packaging materials. The fire took two days to extinguish. The smokehouse, which was about 1,000 feet away, was undamaged.