"A fire had started in the factory around 4:20 p.m., not long before Barrientes was scheduled to clock in as maintenance manager at the food manufacturing plant in southeastern New Mexico. The blaze had caught his coworkers coming off the day shift by surprise; they reported smelling the smoke before seeing the flames."
"By 5:30 p.m., the clouds of smoke had mostly dissipated, but the building was gone. The roof of the factory had collapsed, and all but three pieces of food-processing equipment were damaged beyond repair."
"RMS Foods had once been a prominent meat processor in Hobbs, New Mexico, supplying local hotels and restaurants with cuts of beef and pork. But the company had recently started producing soy-based veggie burgers under the Boca Burger brand - an unlikely pivot for a part of the country better known for its cattle ranches, steakhouses, and dairy farms."
On February 14, 2005, a fire broke out at RMS Foods, a food manufacturing plant in southeastern New Mexico around 4:20 p.m. Maintenance manager Andy Barrientes arrived to find black smoke billowing from the building as coworkers evacuated safely to a nearby park. The fire department arrived within four minutes and immediately began containment efforts. By 5:30 p.m., the facility was completely destroyed, with the roof collapsed and nearly all food-processing equipment damaged beyond repair. The plant, which had been operating for nearly 46 years under the Cobb family ownership, had recently transitioned from meat processing to producing Boca Burger veggie burgers. Despite the catastrophic destruction, all staff evacuated without injuries.
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