At approximately 1:45 p.m. this afternoon, a heating system malfunction resulted in a small fire involving the insulation around a storage tank outside the company's Martinsburg, W.Va., facility.

The Martinsburg Fire Department extinguished the fire. There were no injuries and there was no chemical release to the environment.

Attributable to Roman Blahoski, director, Ecolab Global Communications

Ecolab Inc.
Roman Blahoski, 651-293-4385
mediarelations@ecolab.com