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New Zealand Fire Caused by "Over Capacity"
22 February 2012
The New Zealand Fire Service has attributed a fire at a packaging plant in Hastings to the plant having outgrown its storage capacity. The blaze at Hawk Packaging, a company that makes egg crates and packaging for fruit, completely destroyed the facility and came after the Fire Service had written to the plant's management with its concerns following a previous fire last year.
Eighteen people from six homes were evacuated by police as the fire threatened to spread to homes and four adjacent buildings. It was the third blaze at the site, with the last two igniting in the plant’s paper store room within four months of each other.