AFTER MORE than 10 hours passed since a fire broke out at a warehouse of a paper factory in Chonburi in the early hours of the morning (Apr. 6) officials said it will take another one to two days to extinguish it, TV Channel 7 said.
At 3.30 a.m. Pol. Maj. Wirat Trakulthai, an inspector at Ban Bueng provincial police station, was alerted of a fire erupting at a recycling and pressed paper storage factory in this district and quickly mobilised 15 fire trucks to put it out.
The warehouse is large, about 100 metres wide and 150 metres long, but there is no sign of the fire slowing down with piles of pressed paper stocked there still burning.
Earlier it was chaotic as firefighters moved the remaining piles of paper with explosions heard from time to time before the building’s structure which was made of metal sheets collapsed on top of the paper crates.
The firefighters could only spray water to prevent the fierce fire from spreading to nearby areas.
At around 1.15 p.m. today, around 10 hours after the fire started, it was still burning as the warehouse is full of pressed paper which is a good fuel for fire.
The firemen are now using a backhoe to scoop out cardboard boxes then continuously spraying water in fighting this blaze.
Mr. Decha Rueang-on, head of the Chonburi Provincial Public Health Department, expects that it will take at least another one to two days to extinguish this fire. After that relevant agencies will be moving in to investigate what triggered this huge blaze.
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Firemen fighting the big blaze at a paper factory warehouse in Chonburi. Photo: TV Channel 7
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