“It’s unfortunate, but it’s the nature of the work they do.”
He said while the fire was extinguished “pretty quickly” the crews who had arrived on site first had acted quickly.
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Fire and Emergency's Counties Manukau area manager Geoff Purcell said the fire at Global Metal Solutions is now under control.
“If you don’t get in hard and stop the fire burning quickly in situations like this then it can become an all day event,” Dalton said.
Eli Nathan, who works at an office adjacent to Global Metal Solutions, said he saw “smoke clouding into the atmosphere” on Tuesday morning, but said the fire had later subsided.