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Explosion and Fire Shuts Down Love Box Factory Save Email Print
Posted: 7:58 AM Sep 11, 2007
Last Updated: 11:48 AM Sep 12, 2007
Email Address: news@kake.com

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Investigators think a malfunctioning generator led to an explosion inside a building at the Love Box factory in north Wichita Tuesday morning. The ensuing three-alarm fire shut down city streets, but was contained within an hour.

It began with an explosion around 7:04am. Everyone in the factory was evacuated - no injuries are reported. Eyewitnesses told KAKE News that smoke was visible from I-235.

Fire crews were able to keep the fire from spreading - it was contained to the power plant building. The plant reopened later that day. Initial damage estimates are around $2 million.

Police blocked off traffic in the area at 37th St/Ohio and 37th St/Broadway.

According to the company's website, they make corrugated cardboard, boxes and palettes.

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Posted by: duh Location: wichita on Sep 12, 2007 at 01:02 PM
Uhhh, if you watch the video one of the firemen says all the workers were already out when they got there...

Posted by: none Location: wichita on Sep 11, 2007 at 01:03 PM
Why did the fire alarms not go off in the building. Lovebox workers still working when fire crews showed up.

Posted by: j Location: wichita on Sep 11, 2007 at 10:51 AM
i just left love box maintenance two weeks ago and it was one of the biggest complaints we had that we needed to get the wakesha people in there to work on those things response usually given "the company is short on budget" guess they really did run them untill they blew up.

Posted by: gon Location: wichita on Sep 11, 2007 at 08:46 AM
i work there and it was 3 large booms and very one went running out. we are lucky the paper did not catch fire. it was a scary ordeal

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