At 4.30am on Tuesday, a large fire broke out on the 3^rd floor of the Ngo Van Deo wooden furniture showroom at 247 Ngo Quyen in Son Tra District’s An Hai Bac Ward.

Witnesses said that a large volume of black smoke was billowing from the burning building.  They banged on the door and then rang firefighters for help.  At the time, 3 people were asleep in the house but they managed to run out of the house to safety. 

The scene of the fire

Initially, 6 fire engines and 40 firefighters from the district’s Division No 3 of Fire Fighting and Prevention rushed to the scene to douse the blaze.  An additional 12 fire engines with 70 firefighters from other nearby divisions arrived later to help.  The Secretary of the Son Tra District Party Committee, Mr Cao Xuan Thang, and the Deputy Director of the municipal Police Department, Col Le Ngoc Hai, attended the scene to oversee the fire-fighting activities.

Thanks to the great efforts of the firefighters, the blaze was completely extinguished after 2 hours.

Many machines and an estimated 30m³ of timber were completely destroyed.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.