Three injured in Georgia-Pacific plant fire

<p>Three workers were injured Thursday in a fire at a power plant the provides electricity to a Georgia-Pacific linerboard plant on the Chattahoochee River, officials said.</p><p>Details of the fire about 8:30 a.m. were sketchy, but a plant spokeswoman said it was known as a "puff-back fire," or flash fire, in the bark delivery system that provides material to be burned in the power plant.</p><p>The three workers were taken to the Southeast Alabama Medical Center in Dothan, Ala., spokeswoman Celia Bostwick said. She said that because of privacy rules, she could not provide identities of the workers or the nature of their injuries, but she said no one had died.</p><p>Bostwick said there was no property damage at the plant.</p><p>The Georgia-Pacific factory, which first opened in 1963, employs about 800 workers and produces linerboard and corrugating medium for box manufacturers.</p>

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