00:04thick black smoke engulfed the air surrounding globe city plaza and environs in the midst flames
00:11emanating from the compound which is home to several businesses these videos captured by
00:16express journalist shivana lal shows the intensity of what was unfolding at the scene firefighters
00:23battle to put out a blaze which started around 9 20 a.m and lasted for hours
00:33acting deputy chief fire officer answer ali spoke to the media well on our arrival at the scene we
00:39observed that the building the eastern side of it was well alight engulfed on the inside the building
00:45is approximately 100 meters at the front and about 120 meters at the back exact measurements will be
00:52will be accessed later on how much units you have down here presently we have four five tenders
01:01and our skyliff appliance the ambulances and utility as well so we are in order that was complemented
01:09by strong manpower of over 30 firefighters which was critical to containment the battle yes we are
01:15winning it we stopped the fire from spreading to the foam crack factory at the back and to this is
01:21this
01:21place here on the on the western side so it is under control we can't find it to the hardware
01:28tv6 news
01:29understands that a business at which a fire broke out sold household items and hardware supplies it's
01:35owned by chinese nationals who declined to speak with news reporters shaguanas resident nicolas brito was
01:42alerted to the blaze by the smoke and emergency response all i saw was smoke from home and it's like
01:53from that we say castle field to chase village here on the fly over this is where we realize it's
01:59um
01:59by jack lally the owner of jojo gyro located at the front of the compound tells us he was at
02:05home when the
02:06fire broke out and received a phone call indicating what was transpiring you call me and tell me come
02:12you have a fire around you blaze and i come and train i come in fast in my my blaze
02:16i want to see my
02:17blaze what happened to him i hope everything good by me right now evacuation efforts were successful
02:23and there were no reports of prisons unaccounted for but the deputy cfo wasn't making any premature
02:30pronouncements no no not not in this done thus far until we dig through the rubble then we may be
02:37able to identify there's any era any any suspicion why it's too hot to tell too hot to tell too
02:45hot
02:46and too early to tell up to the time our cameras left the scene that was unchanged and the work
02:51by fire
02:52officials was still in progress however a subsequent video sent to us showed that a business place was
02:58gutted with everything reduced to rubble and ash the cause of the fire is still being investigated alicia boucher tv6
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