NINNEKAH — Grady County firefighters are battling a warehouse blaze that started about 1 p.m. Wednesday, a county emergency management official said.
The building housed hand sanitizer but no one worked at the facility, according to Amanda Wilkerson, deputy director of Grady County Emergency Management.
Six fire departments, including firefighters from Chickasha, responded to the blaze. There was no apparent cause of the fire Wednesday afternoon.
“There were no injuries since the building was used as a disposal facility for the hand sanitizer,” Wilkerson said.
Small grass fires started around the building but were quickly extinguished. The building is located at 10006 Quail Lane in Ninnekah, Wilkerson said.
Bordwine Development, owner of the building, was fined $6 million in August for illegally disposing of hand sanitizer in multiple Grady County locations. The fine was levied by the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality.
The old Chickasha Manufacturing building burned to the ground in August where fire crews found thousands of pallets of hand sanitizer store inside and outside of the building, Oklahoma City television station KFOR reported. The Chickasha building was about 100,000 square feet.
At the time, Chickasha Fire Chief Tony Samaniego told KFOR, “We’re looking in the neighborhood of 1.5 to 2 million gallons of 75% alcohol-based hand sanitizer burning. Alcohol is flammable, very flammable, especially in that concentration.”
It was unclear Wednesday afternoon how much hand sanitizer was stored at the Ninnekah location.