Auto parts maker Faurecia defied instructions from firefighters to evacuate its Saline, Michigan plant during fire
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Workers had earlier reported that many of them had not been evacuated during the fire, which started in a transformer on the plant's roof on the night of June 28. However, the WSWS has now learned that this was in defiance of responders from the Saline Area Fire Department, and that plant managers moved workers to different parts of the building in a bid to cover up its actions.
A worker who was on duty at the time of the fire said, “First they told us to go out the back. Then we had to come back in the building and go down stairs.” Evidently management was seeking to conceal the fact that people were still inside. “Then they told us to go back upstairs and go to a different part of the plant. Then we had to go back to work.”