Firefighters were still trying to extinguish the blaze inside the facility around 5 p.m., approximately two hours after they responded to the three-alarm fire, according to Adams.
All of the employees safely escaped from the building, and no injuries to firefighters were immediately reported, Adams said.Flames could be seen from a distance after 3 p.m. at a storage facility behind the waterfront refinery. Fire boats were seen in aerial video pouring water on the fire from the harbor.
The 99-year-old refinery, which employs 510 full-time workers and is in the midst of replacing its massive, beloved neon rooftop "Domino Sugars" sign with an LED replica, processes about 6.5 million pounds of raw cane sugar a day, The Baltimore Sun reported. American Sugar Refining, Inc., the owner of the Baltimore refinery, said in a statement that the fire's cause is under investigation.
In November 2007, a powerful explosion and fires forced the refinery to shut down for a week. The powdered sugar mill was declared a total loss.
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