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Huge fire guts F&B supplier's warehouse

Posted by: VINODB
29 Jun 2009
The fire broke out around 3:00pm. I work for the customer services and we were all at our department which is right above the main warehouse. We could see people panicking at that moment, however we did not know why? we ask one of them and he told there is a fire in the warehouse. At first we thought it was a joke because we could not hear any fire alarms. But there was one of our warehouse staff who rushed in and asked us to evacuate the work station immediatly and that's when we realized it was true. We got out of the building as quick as we could. i started seeing smoke coming from the warehouse and then it started to blaze on fire. We rushed to our head office building were the fire had not yet reached and we helped to move out all the PR documents, important files and the pc itself.. what ever we could. Finaly one of the civil difence officers asked us to evacuate the head office since there was no control over the fire. We stood there watching till every bit of our warehouse came down. the civil difence managed to save the main building and what ever left was just debris.
Posted by: ray
30 Jun 2009
Perhaps lighnening caused this fire more companies should have protection against lightening, it can strike anytime




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