Fire officials say the building, which housed Patriot Rail’s Cowlitz & Columbia Railway locomotive repair shop, is expected to be a total loss.
LONGVIEW, Wash. — Firefighters were battling a large industrial fire at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging Company site in Longview on Monday afternoon, with crews taking a defensive approach due to heavy flames.
Dispatch got calls about a fire shortly after 4 p.m. within Patriot Rail’s Columbia & Cowlitz Railway warehouse and locomotive repair shop, which sits on the Nippon Dynawave property along the Columbia River, according to the Longview Fire Department.
Multiple units from both Longview Fire and Cowlitz 2 Fire
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