By Associated Press - Tuesday, September 5, 2017

WEST MONROE, La. (AP) - Part of the roof collapsed onto a baling machine at a Louisiana paperboard plant, starting a fire.

Graphic Packaging International spokeswoman Sue Appleyard tells The News-Star that nobody was hurt, and the fire was confined to one location at the plant.

She says operations continue in the rest of the plant in West Monroe.



The Ouachita Parish Fire Department says it was called shortly after 10 a.m. Tuesday. Fire Investigator Dustin Harris says small smoldering fires started in paper in the building.

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