On Wednesday morning October 23rd, just before 10:00am, fire units from Smith River, Harbor, Brookings, Cape Ferrelo, Crescent City and Fort Dick fire departments responded to a reported commercial structure fire at Pac-Nor Barreling on Overlook Road, off of Winchuck River Road.
Units arrived to a fully involved structure after having difficulties negotiating the narrow access road to the property. Firefighters contained the fire to the large rifle barrel manufacturing facility and prevented spread to nearby buildings and vegetation.
Firefighters contained the fire to the large rifle barrel manufacturing facility on the property and prevented spread to nearby buildings and vegetation.
A statement by Pac-Nor Barreling on social media read…”We’re all safe everyone made it out alive. We had a catastrophic fire at Pac-Nor this morning everything is a total loss, not sure about our next move still processing what just happened”.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.