Static electricity may have caused a three-alarm fire that collapsed the roof of a chemical company’s facility in Auburn Hills, according to fire officials.
Crews at 12:50 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 8, were called to a fire at the LXR Biotech building at 1139 Centre Road, near North Opdyke Road. Two employees were working at the business when the fire started. Both escaped without injury, authorities say.Arriving firefighters saw flames coming through the roof and rear of the building. Further investigation revealed that LXR Biotech stores heptane — a highly flammable chemical — inside the building and the chemical was burning.