Postville Fire Chief Jeffrey Bohr says the fire at at the Agri Star Meat Plant this week started accidentally in the laundry room and spread quickly. “I’m guessing a 75% loss and structural damage, that’s not including the loss of products, you know, the...
The company that owns a northeast Iowa meat processing plant plans to rebuild after this week’s massive fire the AgriStar plant in Postville. The fire chief in Postville says the fire that started Tuesday morning has destroyed about 75% of the plant. Hundreds of...
The state’s “Mobile Workforce Center” is in Postville to help employees of the AgriStar meatpacking plant damaged by a massive fire that started early Tuesday. The company has not announced when or if the plant will reopen. A message on...
