Trailer Fire at Belding Hausman
On March 21, 2007 Lincolnton and Boger City Fire was dispatched to a structure fire at Belding Hausman, ( a large textile mill on East Main St. in Boger City). Engine 43 arrived to find a working fire in a transportation trailer located in the rear of the structure. Attack crews started extinguishment, and determined the trailer was loaded with approximately 42,000 pounds of fiber in large bails. Ladder crews laddered the trailer to cut a hole in top to investigate how much fiber was involved. Forklifts had to be used to offload the fiber and spread out to be extinguished. Crews from both departments were on the scene for several hours soaking the offloaded fiber.