Fire destroys cottonseed warehouse

Smoke still wafts through the air Tuesday afternoon after a fire broke out Monday night in a cottonseed storage facility at the Southern States cotton gin on U.S. Highway 301.

W 021913 SOUTHERN STATES FIRE 01 — Smoke still wafts through the air Tuesday afternoon after a fire broke out Monday night in a cottonseed storage facility at the Southern States cotton gin on U.S. Highway 301.

A shattered shop light is believed to be the cause of a Monday night fire that destroyed a cottonseed warehouse, Bulloch County Fire Chief Christopher Ivey said Tuesday. Bulloch County and Statesboro fire departments were called out around 10:20 p.m. Monday to a raging blaze that melted metal and consumed many of the tons of cottonseed inside a warehouse at Southern States cotton gin on Goldkist Road off U.S. Highway 301 South. Ivey said the warehouse was “80 percent full” of cottonseed.

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