Fire forces evacuation of Tweed marijuana facility in Smiths Falls

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A small explosion and fire forced a brief evacuation of the Tweed Inc. medicinal marijuana production plant in Smiths Falls Monday morning.

The fire occurred while construction crews were using an acetylene torch in an unoccupied portion of the company’s sprawling campus in the former Hershey’s Chocolate factory, said Bruce Linton, founder and CEO of Canopy Growth, Tweed’s parent company.

“It appears that somehow they damaged the tanks and that caused a small fire,” Linton said. “There was no damage to the building, but it did cause a little bit of excitement.”

There were no injuries.

The Smiths Falls plant is one of four production facilities Canopy operates, and occupies about 180,000 square feet of the building at 1 Hershey Dr. The construction crew was doing some demolition in an unoccupied area of the building to prepare it for expansion, Linton said.

The fire forced the building to be evacuated for about 10 minutes, he said.

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