Crushed and burned vegetable oil canisters at a factory on Chauncey, after FDNY extinguished a fire Wednesday night. — Photo by Jonathan Mena

Fire erupted at a Bushwick cooking oil factory located just next door to a collapsed, fire damaged building which burned for two days in July, and was quickly extinguished by the Fire Dept.

Firefighters from Ladder 112 and 176 arrived on the scene Wednesday night to extinguish a small fire in a storage section of the CBS Food Product Corp. factory at 770 Chauncey Street. The storage area contained hundreds of unlabeled bottles of vegetable oil that were being prepared to be shipped out, according to a factory worker.

Firefighters used a saw to cut a door and gate to gain access to the building. Onlookers said the fire appeared to have started around 8:30pm. The factory, which was open at the time of the fire, is on the same block where a kitchen cabinet manufacturer burned down back in July. The flames from the cabinet factory were so intense that the roof of the building collapsed, and a work order from the NYC Dept. of Buildings placed on the site states that the factory sustained "90% building collapse" and is due for an "emergency demolition operation" because of "severe fire damage," caused by faulty electrical wiring.

The cause of the oil factory fire is still under investigation. A spokesman for the company told BushwickBK that "the fire was small and no big deal." Firefighters on the scene were unaware of July’s fire but assured that the oil factory fire "was nothing to worry about." Burned plastic could be smelled for blocks.