A huge blaze at a recyclable plastics warehouse in Samut Sakhon’s Ban Paew district has been burning for almost six hours today, despite the efforts of scores of firefighters and fire trucks.
The inferno, which started at about 10am, rapidly spread through the warehouses of Mahachok Mahachai Trading, which contained highly flammable plastic waste from electricity cables.
By 3pm, three warehouses had already collapsed and firefighters from ten stations were working hard to control the blaze.
A large black column of smoke can be seen rising into the sky from quite some distance away.
It is reported that the warehouses were rented by Chinese nationals.
A fire chief said that their work to control the blaze had been made more difficult due to the limited access to the warehouses and an inadequate water supply.
