Massive Fire Engulfs Suburban Milwaukee Patrick Cudahy Plant

July 6, 2009

According to cbs2chicago.com, A massive fire broke out overnight at the Patrick Cudahy meat processing plant in southern Wisconsin, and officials have evacuated homes in a 1-mile radius.

There is no word yet on how the fire broke out.

An extra-alarm fire also hit the plant exactly three years before the current one, on July 5, 2006, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported.

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