"fire broke out...."

 

Here is a recent incident of a fire. For us it highlights a lot of hidden hazards.

When the firefighters arrived at the scene, they saw black smoke rising from the warehouse, and urgently laid out water lines to sprinkle water, and the fire was extinguished for more than 1 hour.

The (local) City Fire Department said that the police received a report at 5:25 p.m. today, pointing out that a fire broke out in a factory (location name omitted), and the fire department immediately dispatched 15 vehicles and 31 firefighters to rescue it.

In addition to stacking a large number of aluminum metal blocks and aluminum alloy ingots, there are also many metal scraps left after processing and manufacturing, all of which are piled up in the factory area.

A fire broke out at a metal processing and manufacturing plant in (location name omitted), but fortunately, there were no large number of flammable chemical raw materials in the factory, which did not allow the fire to spread further.

We are thankful that no one was injured in this fire. The news media article does not state what was the cause nor what was the combustible that was burning.

The photo shows a stack of 14 low profile sows. Sows should never be stacked that tall. We have reported on numerous incidents of tall stacks of sows falling over and killing workers.

In addition, in the photo there is stacks of scrap/raw materials. Thankfully that material did not ignite.

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