Two-alarm Chemical Fire In Southwest Salt Lake City

Firefighters rushed to the scene of a 2-alarm commercial area blaze in southwest Salt Lake City Monday morning. Workers at Brenntag Pacific, 2334 W. Directors Row (1100 South), called 911 when noticing smoke at 8:12 a.m., and all 15 employees at the business had self-evacuated when crews arrived, said Salt Lake City Fire Department spokesman Jasen Asay. The blaze, believe to have begun in empty plastic drums stored in an “add-on’ structure attached to the main business, was reported under contro...