Taiwan pharmaceutical factory from the 20th fire Taiwan media: estimated to be 21 can be completely extinguished

Medicine Network December 21st, had supplied the island's anti-epidemic raw materials, Taoyuan Xufu Pharmaceutical Factory on the 20th alarm fire, causing concern on the island.
Taoyuan Municipal Government Fire Department received a report at noon on the 20th, a factory in Haihu, Luzhu District, a fire, there are flames, nearby people first heard the sound, and then saw smoke straight into the sky, a few kilometers away can be seen.
the fire is Xufu Pharmaceutical Factory, is the island's largest raw materials factory.
, the Taoyuan City Fire Department quickly mobilized all kinds of fire, ambulance 652 vehicles, police and firefighters 187 people to rescue.
The factory is a 5th floor above ground, 1st floor underground building, the fire burned on the 3rd floor, Xu surnamed employees and Filipino foreign workers were resting in the dormitory, found that the explosion after going out to check, resulting in serious burns to Filipino foreign workers, life-threatening, Xu surnamed employees with minor injuries.
Fire Department said that the fire can not be put out for the time being, the main reason is that Xufu Pharmaceutical Factory stored a large number of volatile highly soluble chemical solvents, in a number of sporadic explosions in the continuous outflow of solvents, affecting all equipment in the plant, coupled with the northeast monsoon turn, the temperature of the plant is too high, firefighters can not enter the fire, had to let it burn.
firefighters tried to keep more than 10 factories behind them to stop the spread.
the evening of the 20th, the fire burned for about 4 hours, has spread to four nearby factories, it is expected that the 21st can be completely extinguished.
Xufu Chairman Ong Weijun arrived at the scene on the afternoon of the 20th, stressing that the day did not start work, only two or three employees worked overtime to close;
he said the most concentrated part of the fire is the production area, property damage can not be assessed.
Xufu is located in Taoyuan Luzhu, the island's well-known API factory, because the plant produced oxycodonequine RAW drugs are believed to help treat the new crown pneumonia, in April this year Tsai Ing-wen visited Xufu, the industry on the spot promised to donate 1 ton of API to help Taiwan fight the outbreak.
In response to this fire, Taiwan "Central Epidemic Command Center" spokesman Zhuang Peoplexiang 20, said that the current treatment of new crown pneumonia is not very important, so the accident should not affect the epidemic prevention, but whether it caused other diseases lack of medicine, need to be further investigated by the "Food and Drug Administration."
, the "Director of Food and Drug Administration" Wu Xiumei, said that Xufu produced drugs sold mostly, and the island's pharmaceutical companies use a variety of raw materials, the incident should not affect the island's drug supply.
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