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Video: 5-alarm fire rips through sheet metal plant

Billowing black smoke quickly consumed a nearby neighborhood; there were no injuries reported

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UPPER MORELAND, Pa. — Firefighters battled a five-alarm blaze at a sheet metal plant in Upper Moreland, Montgomery County.

The fire was reported around 5:19 p.m. Monday at Trico Metal Products on the 2300 block of Wyandotte Road. County officials say a second alarm rang at 5:38 p.m. and the fire went to three alarms at 5:43 p.m.

“Moments after being inside the fire conditions overwhelmed the building. It went to three alarms almost instantaneous,” said Willow Grove Fire Department Chief Brian Focht.

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