Big azzz fire in the industrial area

Vegas
By Vegas

Next to the base...
Huge black cloud...

By anonymous• 12 Sep 2008 11:00
anonymous

Huge blaze hits Industrial Area

Publish Date: Friday,12 September, 2008, at 12:53 PM Doha Time

Firefighters tackling the huge blaze which gutted three storehouses in the Industrial Area yesterday evening PICTURE: Nasar T K

STOREHOUSES of at least three companies on Street 47 of the Industrial Area were destroyed in a major fire that broke out yesterday evening.

Losses are still to be assessed, according to managers of one of the affected companies.

Though no casualties or injuries were reported, goods worth millions of riyals were said to be destroyed. The cause of the fire was not known until late in the evening. However, some unofficial sources attributed it to a short-circuit.

Civil defence teams were tackling the blaze until late in the evening. Thick plumes of smoke could be seen even from far-off places.

Among the destroyed were the storehouses of a plastic manufacturing company and a fibre-glass company. Little information was available about the materials stored in the third storehouse.

The absence of streetlights made the firefighters’ job difficult. They had to rely on the lights equipped on their vehicles to monitor the operations.

Windy conditions caused the fire to spread to the neighbouring storehouses after it broke out in the fibre-glass manufacturers’ storehouse.

Emergency medical service deployed at least four ambulances, besides a disaster relief vehicle. However, no one was injured in the fire, an official confirmed.

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By anonymous• 12 Sep 2008 10:59
anonymous

By Vegas• 12 Sep 2008 07:44
Vegas

Could barely breath and I was far from it...

You can't teach experience...

By stealth• 12 Sep 2008 06:24
stealth

looks like 3 warehouses caught fire. Losses in millions.

By adey• 12 Sep 2008 02:25
Rating: 2/5
adey

What a dull reply, I really don't know why I bother! Humourous dead zone here as far as I can see.

snooze

"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365

not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the

many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers

were given. Satan - 10."

By stealth• 11 Sep 2008 20:56
stealth

It was a massive fire.

By adey• 11 Sep 2008 19:16
Rating: 4/5
adey

I have some cream, if it helps.

"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365

not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the

many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers

were given. Satan - 10."

By anahmed• 11 Sep 2008 19:09
anahmed

we did see the black clouds from that side...around evening today

Never Ask for a SMILE..just GIVE it..

By Vegas• 11 Sep 2008 17:33
Vegas

I don't hear any fire trucks???

You can't teach experience...

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