#BALTIMORE DOMINO SUGAR FIRE TV#
On April 22, 2021, WBAL TV reported that in 2007, sugar dust caused an explosion that injured three employees and destroyed equipment. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Firefighters promptly evacuated and officials called for three alarms.Īll employees were safely evacuated.
Once they got inside, they found that fire from a collapsed silo had gotten onto a conveyor belt and travelled midway through the building. They found heavy fire and smoke issuing through the roof of a raw sugar shed. On April 20, 2021, WBAL TV reported a fire at a sugar products manufacturer in Baltimore, Maryland.įirefighters responded shortly after 3:00 p.m. The Baltimore location has 510 employees.
It was founded in 1901, has multiple facilities across the U.S., and sells its products under four brand names: Domino, C&H, Florida Crystals, and Redpath. You won’t see it.Industry: Sugar Products (Food Processing)Īccording to its website, Domino Sugar is a sugar products company headquartered in Yonkers, New York. “You’re suddenly talking to someone who’s having a birthday or bar mitzvah and they want you to turn the sign on,” says Mickey Seither, who was in charge of the Domino sign for a decade and is now a senior vice president. People have called the refinery or arrived unannounced at the front gate, begging to have the sign illuminated just for them. on Tuesday, Domino parent company American Sugar Refining Inc., said. Countless people have made the sign the backdrop for their snapshots. A fire in the raw sugar shed of the Baltimore refinery was reported at approximately 3 p.m.
Showtime zips through hundreds of miles of wire and 230 transformers until it makes a grand entrance in 650 elongated glass tubes bent in the shapes that spell out America’s No. “We could not conceive of a better brand.”īut even more than the brand name itself, the “Domino Sugar” sign is an icon in Baltimore’s skyline.Įach evening, it takes 15 minutes from the moment the timer clicks on for the noble gases to be ready to paint the town red. General Ship Repair, near Domino Sugar Pier, Baltimore Northwest Harbor. “We view Domino as synonymous with sugar in America, and we are very excited because it fits very well in our plan,” Alfonso Fanjul (pronounced fan-HOOL) said in an interview at the plant. January 11, 1941: The sugar plant in Baltimore.įebruary 15, 1922: Baltimore’s Sugar refinery.įebruary 13, 1934: American (Sugar refinery) in Baltimore Harbor. BALTIMORE (WJZ) - Firefighters have responded to an apparent turbine fire at the Domino Sugar refinery Thursday night in Baltimore, according to the. July 26, 1950: The Sugar Refinery in Locust Point loads 150 trucks a day. October 30, 1946: A worker packages sugar at the American Sugar Refinery. October 31, 1946: Workers upload sugar cane from Puerto Rico at the Sugar Refinery. October 31, 1946: Workers upload sugar cane from Puerto Rico at the American Sugar Refinery. January 11, 1959: Baltimore City aerial view, photo by Richard Stacks. July 2, 1978: Inspecting sugar bags at the sugar refinery. March 20, 1977: A front-end loader takes a bite out of a mountain of “raw” cane sugar in a storage shed at the refinery. January 15, 1980: Employees at Amstar Corp.’s Domino sugar plant on Locust Point picket during a wildcat strike. But there was no fire as the smoke originated in the stacks of the freighter.Īugust 20, 1987: Packaging of brown sugar, bone char, cyntifical spinners before and after filtering. March 23, 1975: No fire here - clouds of thick, black smoke appeared to cme from the Domino Sugar are ain South Baltimore yesterday morning. July 10, 1978: The domino is down to ‘no.’ Photo by Clarence B. 31, 1967: The city, viewed across the inner harbor, from atop the American Sugar Refinery. March 12, 1974: How sweet it isn’t - What appears to be clouds of black smoke emitting from Domino Sugar is in reality being spewed by the freighter “Union Defenders.” Photo by Lloyd Pearson.
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