South Korean Plastics Warehouse Destroyed by Fire

Fire destroyed nearly 25 tons of raw material stored at a plastics manufacturing plant in South Korea’s South Jeolla province Tuesday night.

First reported shortly after 10 p.m., the fire swept through a 330-square-meter plastic greenhouse used for storage at the plant in Suncheon, an industrial city southeast of Gwangju, KBS News reports.

Firefighters fought the blaze for nearly 80 minutes. Damage was estimated at 36 million won or $29,605 U.S. dollars.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.