4-hour fire hits plastics factory

An estimated P6 million worth of plastic products and equipment were destroyed when a fire of still unknown origin hit a plastics factory before dawn yesterday in Valenzuela City.

The Asiano Plastic Industries Inc. at 16 Francisco street in Barangay Maysan, was gutted by the four-hour fire that started at the production area. Nobody was hurt in the incident.

Valenzuela City Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) investigator, Fire Officer 2 Roy Arbis, said the blaze broke out at the firm’s warehouse at around 2:57 a.m.

The fire, which reached the fifth alarm, quickly engulfed highly flammable materials.

Several firetrucks from neighboring localities and fire volunteer brigades, including the local BFP’s Engines 82, 85, and 87, helped put out the blaze which was placed under control and confined within the firm’s compound at 4:44 a.m.

Fire marshal Chief Inspector Agapito Nacario declared a fire-out at 6:50 a.m. Factory owner James Jim told arson probers that he lost at least P6 million in the fire.

Arson investigators are still trying to determine the exact cause of the blaze. Nobody was reported hurt in the incident. –Pete Laude