Rochelle peanut facility on fire since early morning, could take days to put out, fire chief says

A peanut facility in Rochelle has been on fire since early Thursday morning, according to the fire chief.

Wayne McGuinty, Rochelle fire chief said that the fire started at the Doster Peanut drying field on Wilcox Industrial Park at 3:30 a.m.

McGuinty said that it could take two or three days to put the fire out.

He said that a shed full of 20 semi trailers were full of peanuts being dried, and caught on fire.

Now, there are many dried peanuts catching fire after the semi trailers caught fire, he said.

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