Heavy fire explains chemical company in Waregem in the ashes: fire department recommends residents to the windows and doors closed to keep

Waregem In the Textielstraat in Waregem, belgium, on the border with the Ad, it is Wednesday night something for six hours a fire in the chemical company Matco. The onsite staff was able to escape. As far as is known, touched no one injured. The fire department is asking people in the vicinity to windows and to keep doors closed and their ventilation off. The municipal emergency plan is activated.

The accountant and a representative, the only two employees of Matco that at a quarter to six, still in the company were present, were terrified out of his wits when suddenly the fire alarm went off. “They are immediately going to look in the warehouse and saw approximately in the middle of a large flame,” says Francis Vanbiervliet, the manager of the company in Waregem. “Both of them have immediately left the company. How the flame originated, we know not. This may not be the result of one or other manipulation. At that moment there was already an hour no one in the warehouse. There are products saved, which may ignite spontaneously.”