No injuries following fire at Lincoln business

A Lincoln business suffered minor damage following a fire Monday night.

It happened just after 7:30 p.m. at General Dynamics. That is just southeast of 27th and Superior.

Employees at the plant were mixing chemicals as part of their routine manufacturing process, those chemicals had a reaction which was more extensive than normal. It caused the chemicals to ignite.

Employees used extinguishers to get the fire out. It was in a room that contains different chemicals so firefighters were cautious in entering that room.

Nobody was injured.

According to LFR, the plant was evacuated for a couple hours but will now run as normal.