Area departments battle blaze in Amelia

Multiple agencies responded to a fire at Allison Marine in Amelia Thursday afternoon and kept firefighters on scene for about five hours.
Amelia Volunteer Fire Department Chief Jason Brown said the department was called to a fire at the facility at 3:30 p.m. involving a platform that was being scrapped. Brown said that the platform ignited during the scrapping.
The first truck arrived at the scene at 3:36 p.m., and mutual aid was called from Morgan City at 3:59 p.m. Additional mutual aid was requested from fire departments in Berwick, Bayou Vista, Patterson and Bayou L’Ourse, Brown said.
All units left the scene by 8:41 p.m., he said.