The blaze started at a warehouse building and spread to two other buildings as well as damaging a pickup truck and three forklift vehicles parked nearby, police said. Firefighters could not put out the blaze due to the large number of containers with concentrated perfume and alcohol kept in the buildings. At its peak the fire threatened two 10,000-litre alcohol tanks near a building, and firefighters concentrated efforts on defending the tanks. Employee, Athiwat Akkhahad, 25, said the warehouses contained leftover materials from manufacturing cosmetics and perfume as well as chemicals for making the products. Realising that they could not put out the blaze, firefighters decided at 4:55am to contain it and allow it to burn itself out.

Source: The Nation Bangkok September 09, 2017 02:03 UTC