{"id":1238,"date":"2013-07-17T08:23:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T02:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2013\/07\/17\/workers-escape-fury-of-furniture-factory-fire\/"},"modified":"2013-07-17T08:23:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T02:53:42","slug":"workers-escape-fury-of-furniture-factory-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/workers-escape-fury-of-furniture-factory-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers escape fury of furniture factory fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By a staff reporter<br \/>\nDUBAI \u00e2\u20ac\u201d A massive fire erupted at a furniture factory in Al Aweer yesterday morning.<br \/>\n                        <!--adsense--><br \/>\n\t\t <!--more--><br \/>\n Ten workers escaped to safety even as the roof of the factory was gutted and machinery got damaged.<\/p>\n<p>Civil Defence officials confirmed there were no casualties and suspected that a short circuit may have caused the fire.<\/p>\n<p>According to eye-witnesses, the fire erupted around 10am at the factory owned by the Al Mashrabia Company. Fifteen fire fighters were pressed into service and the flames were controlled after an hour.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I was passing nearby and noticed smoke spreading around. When I looked around, I found that the smoke was coming out from the factory. Civil Defence officials struggled to control the fire because of the windy atmosphere,&#8221; a witness recounted.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The roof of the factory was completely destroyed. The machinery was also damaged. The workers were lucky to rush out when the fire erupted,&#8221; said the witness.<br \/>\nWhen Khaleej Times contacted a source from the company, he said: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We cannot tell anything about the estimate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By a staff reporter DUBAI \u00e2\u20ac\u201d A massive fire erupted at a furniture factory in Al Aweer yesterday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furniture-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}