Woodlands Food Factory caught fire and three employees rushed back to put out the fire

A food factory in Woodlands Industrial Zone caught fire. Three employees found a ladder, pulled up the water pipes, and used fire extinguishers to help extinguish the fire.

The accident occurred at 8:50 a.m. on Friday (February 28) at the 15th factory building on Woodlands Ring Road.

Some readers reported that there were thick smoke in the industrial area and many civil defense vehicles arrived.

When the reporter arrived, he found that the fire unit was the Xiongji Bacon Food Industry located on the third floor. It is reported that three employees assisted in extinguishing the fire at that time. An employee who did not want to be named told reporters that they had already gotten off work at the time and rushed to put out the fire after receiving the boss' notification.

“We finished the food preparation work at 3 a.m. and we rested at about 6 or 7 a.m. There was nothing unusual in the kitchen at that time.”

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It was not until around 7 a.m. when the boss came to the factory to do business, he found that black smoke was coming out of the exhaust pipes in the kitchen, so he hurriedly called three nearby people to help put out the fire. The employee revealed that black smoke was constantly discharged from the exhaust port at a high place. They found a ladder at that time, and one person helped to hold the ladder, while the other two used water pipes and fire extinguishers to try their best to extinguish the fire.

Zhang Lirong (43), who works in a factory next to him, said in an interview: “At 8 a.m., we found thick black smoke floating into our kitchen, which was very choking.”

According to the reporter's observation, after the fire broke out, the factory employees were evacuated, the sprinkler was also operating, and the factory was pitch black. When inquired, the Civil Defense Force confirmed that the fire involved the kitchen exhaust pipe (Kitchen Exhaust Ducting) of a unit on the third floor, and had used a sprinkler and a fire water pipe to extinguish the fire. No one was injured in the accident and the cause of the fire is still under investigation.