Firefighters Respond to Industrial Fire at Perdue Farms Food Processing Facility

Firefighters respond to an industrial fire that threatened a Perdue Farms facility in Virginia on April 30, 2022. Chesapeake, Virginia Fire Department

First responders responded to an industrial fire that threatened a Perdue Farms facility in Virginia over the past weekend, according to a local fire department.

“Chesapeake firefighters battled an industrial fire this evening at Perdue Farms in the South Norfolk area. Plant operators reported a fire in [a] large soybean processing tank,” said the Chesapeake Fire Department in a social media post on Saturday. “Water was applied and the fire brought under control in approximately one hour.”