Due to the snow storm and snow removal there will be no parking on Main Street Until Further NoticeConvergent has issued the following statement.
At 10:15 PM last night, December 19, a fire alarm at our Church Street facility triggered the activation of the emergency response plan. Unfortunately, there is a fire localized in one of the containers. We can confirm there have been no injuries and that the fire has not spread to adjacent containers. Emergency services have been monitoring the situation on-site since the start, and we are grateful for their professionalism and rapid deployment.
We are on-site as well, and our focus is on supporting their response.
Orange County Hazmat has been providing continuous air monitoring since the start of the event at the immediate site, and the readings show no alarm levels. Hazmat will continue to monitor air quality at the site and at downwind locations.
Our top priority is to keep people safe. Accepted best practice is to contain the fire, cool the area, and manage it while protecting nearby structures and equipment.
Our systems are monitored 24/7 through a mixture of automated sensors and human monitored cameras and controls. If certain alarms trigger, the system automatically shuts down, as happened here. Human operators have a
manual “emergency stop,” which our operator then activated.
We have idled this system until we can enter the site and learn more about what happened.
The immediate next steps are to contain and resolve the incident. It is too early to speculate what caused the incident and we will continue to work closely with the Fire Department, Police Department, and the Village of Warwick.
