Fire breaks out at former Doyle Manufacturing site in Quincy

QUINCY – Quincy Fire Department and Tri-Township Fire Department responded to a large fire on the property at the former Doyle Manufacturing site at 40th and Broadway Monday evening.

Fire crews got the call at 7:40 pm, according to Quincy Fire Chief Steve Salrin. Billows of smoke could be seen from downtown and, upon arrival, crews found the former office building of the plant fully engulfed.

Quincy Police worked to shutdown Broadway between Applebee’s and Mr. Deals Auto Center. Fire crews ran water lines across the road with multiple crews from both QFD and TTFD working the scene.

Salrin said the crews fought the fire from a defensive standpoint as the building was lost an the goal was to keep it from spreading to other buildings on the property, which is vacant.

Salrin said full details of the manpower involved in fighting the fire would be available later.

Doyle, a manufacturer of dry fertilizer equipment, had a fire at same location in May 2012. That fire was determined accidental in nature.

The company moved its operations to a state-of-the-art facility on U.S. 61 just north of Palmyra in 2015.

Photos by Annie Reller, Aspen Gengenbacher, Bob Gough and Eric Riutzel.