(HBO) – Police of the northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh recently joined hands with the management board of provincial industrial parks and Tong Wei Company Limited to hold a joint firefighting and rescue drill at the company’s factory.

The factory, built on an area of 2.2 hectares, is a modern construction for industrial production.

 

Firefighting team of Tong Wei company extinguish the fire.

Tong Wei is a wholly-foreign-invested company which became operational in 2016 at the Luong Son Industrial Park. It specialises in animal feed and is capable of manufacturing 200,000 tonnes of product per year, creating jobs for 100 workers, 80 of them locals.

The scenario was that an electricity overload occurred in the company, resulting in a fire spanning about 150 square meters. The blaze quickly spread to surrounding areas and deform part of the facility’s steel structure on its roof and its metal tile sheets.

Additionally, two injured labourers were trapped inside the factory and the fire could spread to the area housing dangerous chemicals, posing threats to workers’ lives and causing great property damage.

Upon receiving the information, the firefighting police of the province arrived at the scene and worked with the company’s firefighters to promptly handle the fire and rescue trapped victims, minimising human and property losses./.

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