"Company burns down and 400+ are evacuated..."

The importance of emergency evacuation drills cannot be understated. Practice and drills are a must for when the need arises. Here is a recent incident highlighting the importance of emergency drills.

The accident was reported at 1:00 p.m. at the (aluminium extrusion company).

Civil Protection and Firefighters of (nearby town), controlled the fire that damaged 40 percent of the company's infrastructure but there were no injuries.

According to newspaper archives, last week there was also another fire there, for which they had to evacuate 410 employees, including 30 foreigners. From today's case, fire extinguishing machines, first response units of Municipal and State Civil Protection and ambulances arrived at the plant.

The authorities reported that the fire started in a vertical wall of painting aluminum parts and oven, where ventilation motors are also located.

"They comment that the possible cause of the fire started in the ventilation motors is the only electrical system that is in the upper area, the affectation in 40 percent of the structure with affectation in the aluminum profile bar and in the plastic of the roof of the industrial warehouse.

"(They were) evacuated preventively to 432 employees of (aluminium company name omitted)," a report detailed.

The firefighters carried out cooling work and delimited the affected area and then gave recommendations to the company's safety managers.

We are thankful no workers nor fire department personnel were injured during the evacuation and extinguishing the blaze.

We pray that the damage can be quickly repaired.

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