
Scott Safron (right), one of the family owners of Diversified Foam Products, is comforted by a close friend, Mickey Lubinski (left) as St.Louis firefighters battle a five-alarm blaze in the Diversified building on Branch Street.
Among other products, the company made foam noodles for baseball games and foam tomahawks for the Atlanta Braves.
"We must have made a million of those," Safron said.
©Jerry Naunheim Jr.