Baltimore City Fire Chief James Wallace said that “a mechanical process” involving a conveyor belt is what is believed to have caused a 4-alarm fire inside an over 800,000 square foot building on South Newkirk Street in Southeast Baltimore.

Fire Chief Wallace said they believe that employees at Gold Bond Building Products, a company that manufactures dry wall and gypsum board, attempted to extinguish the fire “but it got ahead of them. They did the right thing. They got their people out.”

The fire was contained by the afternoon and brought under control around 2 p.m.

Wallace said Baltimore City Fire first arrived before 11am for a working fire and that the 4th alarm came at 11:02 am. Wallace also told reporters that they were working on both the 1st and 2nd floors of the building “inter

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