Fire Destroys Wood Products Factory Near Sutter Creek

AMADOR COUNTY (CBS13) — A devastating fire destroyed a manufacturing plant in Amador County on Monday..
The Ampine manufacturing plant produces timber products and is one of a kind in the state of California. Now, more than 150 people employed by the plant are out of a job — and ten days shy of its 50-year anniversary, the facility is gone.
“You probably saw the big plume of smoke billowing. It was raining hot ash and embers,” said Amador Fire Protection District Chief Wa