MORNING SENTINEL • January 23, 2025
Firefighters from several towns worked for hours Thursday to extinguish a fire in a conveyor belt gear box at the Sappi Somerset Mill wood yard that was difficult to access because it was surrounded by piles of wood chips. Wood chips are piled about three stories high in the wood yard before they are placed on the covered conveyor belt system, which extends from 10 feet in the ground to about five stories in the air. More than 300 trucks a day deliver wood to the yard.