ORRINGTON, Aug 10, 2009 (The Hartford Courant - McClatchy-Tribune Information
Services via COMTEX) -- Fire crews are battling flames on the top floor a
defunct cardboard box manufacturing plant on Summer Street this morning.
The fire at the Smurfit-Stone Container was reported around 5 a.m. The building
was fully-involved when fire fighters arrived.
No one was in the building at the time of the fire and there are no reports of
any injures. Due to the fire, Connecticut Light and Power cut power to 500
customers Smurfit-Stone Container, a Missouri based company, closed its
150-employee factory in Torrington in 2000.