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It was bad news for 2 Sisters as the 2015 ended with firefighters called to a fire involving an industrial oven at a its ready meals factory.
The fire broke out at 2 Sisters’ RF Brookes factory in Azalea Road, Rogerstone, near Newport in Wales at about 12.15pm on Sunday (December 20).
Six fire crews were called to the fire, which involved an industrial oven used for food manufacture, according to South Wales Fire and Rescue Service.
The fire was extinguished by a suppression system over the industrial oven, but the building was left “heavily smoke logged”, the service said. The last crews left the factory at 2.30pm.
A 2 Sisters spokeswoman confirmed that there was a “very small fire” on one of the ovens at the site, which employs 1,200 people.
“They put the fire out themselves and no one was injured nor was any property damaged. The fire brigade was called out as a routine precaution,” she said.
“The site is currently investigating the cause of the incident.”
