Nearly 100 firefighters battle 4-alarm blaze at North Portland noodle-making business

A four-alarm fire brought nearly 100 firefighters to a 100-year-old building on North Thompson Street on Monday afternoon.
Flames leapt out of the 26,000-square-foot building and a black plume of smoke rose into the sky, drifting over nearby Interstate 5. The plume could be seen for miles.
According to Portland Fire & Rescue, the fire was reported to be a grease fire in a commercial hood vent at Shin Shin Foods at 400 N. Thompson Street. The business makes noodles.
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[@thomasdeturk5142]

This building is over a century old.

[@kateoneal4215]

There's been nearly a hundred food production facilities in the US that have been destroyed in the past few years. Interesting....

[@thomasdeturk5142]

I brought my bike over to see what was going on.

[@thomasdeturk5142]

If That fire destroyed that building, then it’s a loss and it will have to be demolished after it is investigated by the fire Marshall. Any building built after the 1930’s is required and mandated fire sprinkler systems.

[@thomasdeturk5142]

I went there to tell the firefighters that they should invent a fire truck that has a tiller truck with a basket to have over 4 nozels on it to have a giant power wash hose to knock out the fire quicker.