No one was injured in an industrial fire Friday night at Thaler Machine Co.
Chief Bob Kidd, Clear Creek Fire District in Springboro, said a piece of machinery caught fire and flames spread into a wall and the roof at the facility.
Brief confusion among workers there led crews to believe someone was possibly trapped, but that was not the case, Kidd said.
One employee was treated at the scene for smoke inhalation. That person was not taken to a hospital, the chief said.
The fire was dispatched at about 8:30 p.m. on a report of a fire in a first-floor machine shop at the facility in the 200 block of Tahlequah Trail.
Kidd said the fire broke out in the southeast corner of the facility, and investigators are trying to determine for sure whether the machinery caught fire or whether the fire started in an electrical line.
More than 50 firefighters responded to the one-alarm fire, he said. Crews from the Miami Valley Fire District, Franklin, Washington Twp. and Joint Emergency Medical Services (JEMS) in Franklin assisted.
Thaler Machine's Springboro facility, which specializes in precision tool work, should be back to business in no time, Kidd said.
