Taiwan

Taiwanese Cotton Factory Consumed by Massive Fire

Extinguishment took nearly 11 hours.

Blaze burned nearly four hours.

Nearly 2,000 workers evacuated.

Truck full of burning cylinders towed away from the building.

"Smoke tornado" rose from the gutted building.

Burning magnesium reacts violently with water.

Firefighters rescued a second worker trapped by flames.

Family of three barely escaped the flames.

Valve leaked nearly four hours before the fire.

Fire originated at a plastic injection molding plant.