A significant fire overnight has devastated a modular home manufacturing plant on the South Shore.<\/p>\n
Volunteer firefighters and departments from around the Liverpool area responded to a large fire just before 1 a.m. Thursday at the Lloyoll Prefabs manufacturing building in Brooklyn, N.S.<\/p>\n
In an interview with CityNews Halifax, Lloyoll president Jonathan Lloy said the roof of the building collapsed during the fire.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a steel frame building, 20,000 square feet, so we had steel beams spanning the entire distance, and I think the heat changed the composition of the beams and the shape of them,\u201d Lloy said. \u201cThe building just kind of collapsed in on itself. There was a lot of heat in there last night.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lloy said he was still learning more and gathering information, but confirmed no one was hurt in the fire.<\/p>\n
The RCMP closed down a stretch of Highway 3 in Brooklyn as crews fought the large fire. That roadway reopened around noon Thursday.<\/p>\n
Lloy said his company had been at the location since 2015, building ready-to-live modular housing that it was shipping as far away as the Midwest U.S.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019d really hit our stride,\u201d Lloy said. \u201cThis was our best year for production, and our best year for sales that we\u2019ve ever had; the forecasts were stronger than they\u2019ve ever been.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite the setback, Lloy said the company has \u201cgotten good at modular\u201d and is planning to pivot to a contingency plan to get back up and running as soon as possible.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a break in our stride, this isn\u2019t a stop,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
There was no word on the cause of the fire as of Thursday afternoon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A significant fire overnight has devastated a modular home manufacturing plant on the South Shore. Volunteer firefighters and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":765534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-765533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116498325076704038","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}