Firefighters have stopped an industrial fire spreading to more buildings in Newcastle. Dozens of cars and an auto electrical business have been destroyed.
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00:00 A fire broke out in an auto electrical warehouse in the early hours of this morning.
00:07 More than 40 firefighters were called to this place.
00:11 They had been battling the fire in the early hours of the morning but they have managed
00:16 to now get it under control.
00:19 Fire and Rescue have told us that there were about 30 cars within the warehouse.
00:25 It's not clear exactly whether or not all of them have been destroyed.
00:28 However, a number of them have been burnt by fire or badly damaged due to the intense
00:34 heat that was within this warehouse.
00:36 What's quite incredible is you'll be able to see that the roof of this warehouse has
00:42 caved in.
00:43 You can see from the outside it's very badly damaged and the business is all but destroyed.
00:48 However, there are several buildings surrounding the warehouse that look untouched and Fire
00:54 and Rescue says that they have managed to contain the blaze to that one warehouse despite
01:00 the fact that there are many other buildings butting up against it.
01:05 Firefighters were working on this still when we arrived a couple of hours ago.
01:10 There was firefighters up on a platform above the fire truck.
01:13 They were still putting out the smoulder.
01:15 However, there are no flames and they do expect that they will have it fully put out very
01:21 shortly.
01:22 We spoke to Fire and Rescue earlier and they gave us some updates on where things are at.
01:28 The radiant heat was extremely intense.
01:32 Firefighters did a wonderful job.
01:33 They were under extremely trying conditions to get on top of this fire.
01:37 Cars burn freely, burn hot and can push onto exposures or cause fire spread quickly.
01:43 There were concerns about the toxic smoke that was emitting from this fire in the early
01:48 hours of the morning.
01:50 Nearby residents were told to close their doors, their windows and their vents and much
01:56 of this area has been taped off.
01:59 Things are slowly starting to return to normal.
02:02 We can expect a presence from firefighters and police throughout the day as they continue
02:07 to investigate exactly what happened.
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