From The Mercury News
Lower Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania - Customers and employees of the Home Depot on Armand Hammer Boulevard were evacuated into the parking lot Sunday evening after a forklift caught fire in the Garden Center.
Fire crews used specialized firefighting foam to suffocate the flames as a precaution because of the propane tank on the forklift and the hydraulic oil used on the lifts.
A Home Depot employee had come outside to close the gates to the partially enclosed garden department when she saw “yellow flames” that were “shooting up higher than the forklift,” Babel said.
The fire was reported at 4:49 p.m., and the store was evacuated for about an hour until the fire was under control. Babel said there were about 50 employees in the store at the time of the evacuation.
Read the full story on The Mercury News.
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