Silver City firefighters had to cut into several garage doors to gain access to parts of an abandoned wood pellet plant on Brewer Hill where fire was still smoldering Sunday afternoon, more than an hour after crews arrived on the scene.
By The Daily Press Staff
A structure fire in a former wood pellet plant on Brewer Hill around 3 p.m. Sunday was quickly extinguished by Silver City firefighters, but crews remained on the scene into the evening making sure that flames smoldering in the abandoned building’s ceiling insulation were fully extinguished.
Silver City Fire Chief Milo Lambert credited his firefighters with a quick response, which kept flames from the building from spreading to adjoining properties or the broad expanse of grassland between the burned-out building and properties along Mountain View Road.
“It had some potential to be really bad with this wind,” Lambert noted.
Winds at the Grant County Airport were blowing around 25 mph Sunday afternoon, gusting to nearly 40 mph at times.
According to Thomas Yniguez, a staff member on duty at the adjacent Supporting People in Need overnight shelter, the burned building hasn’t been in use recently, “other than some of the homeless wander in there. Sometimes they camp out in there.
“Whoever owned the building wasn’t able to secure it,” he continued. “It’s been kind of a big problem trying to keep our homeless population out of there, because it’s not secured.”
A Silver City police officer on the scene Sunday told the Daily Press that doors and windows in the building were unsecured when he arrived.
“That back door on the east side has no door handle, no doorknob — nothing,” the officer said. “You walked around it, it was open … it was as easy as just walking into it.”
Fire Chief Lambert said the building has been on his department’s radar for some time, and firefighters have been surveying the property every two months or so.
“We take a look at it pretty regularly because of its location and its abandoned state,” he said. “We’ve had a couple of incidents out here in the weeds, a couple of grass fires this year.
“Some of the most dangerous buildings for firefighters is stuff that’s been abandoned. So yeah, we keep an eye on it,” Lambert continued. “We can take a look and evaluate that it’s not getting worse — like, it’s not collapsing. But we don’t actually get into the building. I don’t know who the owner is.”
Grant County assessor’s records list the owner of the property as Silver City Renewable Energy, which was a New Mexico limited liability company from 2009 to 2018. According to online records from the New Mexico Secretary of State’s Office, the former registered agent for the company was listed as an attorney with an Albuquerque law firm, and the company’s registration was revoked by the state shortly after the attorney resigned as agent five years ago.
Lambert said the department would monitor the building until an investigator from the state arrives today to determine the cause and origins of the blaze.
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