Fire burns down tyre recycle plant in Samut Prakan

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 06, 2011

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Samut Prakan - A massive fire burned down a tyre recycle plant here early Tuesday morning.

Police said the blaze broke out at the Srangsern Machinery on Bang Na-Trat Road in Bang Saothong district at 5 am.

About 10 fire engines spent two hours to control the blaze before it spread to a warehouse of oxygen cylinders of United Industrial Gas Co Ltd.

No one was injured in the fire.

Chernchai Dakhamwong, 52, a security officer of Sransern Machinery, said he saw a fire sparking at the back of the plant and rushed to try to put out the fire but the blaze spread quickly.

The Nation