10 fire engines and dozens of fire fighters converged on the scene and they faced a very difficult task. With heavy smoke billowing out of the building and a genuine fear that the main building where the fire started would collapse. It took the fire fighters over 30 minutes to bring the flames under control and then came the arduous job of sifting through the debris and trying to find the cause of the fire.
From these investigations and statements from the workers who were on shift at the time it is thought that a piece of machinery, a material oven dryer had overheated which then burst into flames. The fire being fed with oil and chemical materials nearby.
There were no injuries reported either to the workers at the factory or to the fire fighters who responded. There has been no comment as yet from the management of the factory but it is thought that there are millions of Baht worth of damage and much more in lost production until the factory and machinery can be restored.
