There was a dose of irony in a massive fire at a firelighter factory in the Netherlands on Thursday morning, which caused an unsurprisingly devastating blaze.
It’s not clear how the fire broke out at the Fire Up factory, but city officials said that they chose to let the fire burn itself out. Only one wall of the building remained afterwards, and a huge plume of smoke was sent across the city of Oisterwijk, leading to fishing bans in nearby lakes. Thankfully, videos seemed to show that the firefighters were able to prevent the blaze spreading to the other nearby factory units.
No one was injured in the blaze.
Watch the fire in this video:
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