An aerial ladder is used to check the fire scene after a blaze at a UK manufacturing plant.  - Screencapture Via Chronicle Live

An aerial ladder is used to check the fire scene after a blaze at a UK manufacturing plant. 

Screencapture Via Chronicle Live

A manufacturing plant received significant damage in a Friday morning fire in Sunderland, England, authorities report.

“We currently have five fire engines and an aerial ladder dealing with a factory fire on Hendon Street, Sunderland,” the Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service Facebook page reports. “We received the call at 12:51 a.m. and dispatched crews from Sunderland Central, Farringdon, South Shields and Marley Park.”

The cause of the fire is not believed to be suspicious, authorities said.

“The building is badly damaged, but thankfully there were no major injuries,” Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service report.

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