Chin Poon denies stored diesel sparked fatal fire

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/04/29
By: Wu Chia-hao, Chiu Chun-chin, Yu Hsiao-han and Shih Hsiu-chuan 

Taipei, April 29 (CNA) The fatal blaze at a printed circuit board (PCB) factory in Taoyuan on Saturday night originated on the fifth floor of a building where solder mask was produced, Chin Poon Industrial said Sunday, denying that the fire was caused by 2,400 liters of stored diesel in the facility.

The fire alarm went off at 9:15 p.m. Saturday in an area where solder masks, thin lacquer-like layers of polymer that are usually applied to the copper traces of a printed circuit board, were being made on the fifth floor of a facility named P3, Chin Poon spokesman Hsiao Kung-yen (蕭公彥) said at a press conference Sunday.

The blaze spread rapidly through the ventilation system to other floors and the fire alarm for the entire P3 facility went off at 9:17 p.m., he said.   [FULL  STORY]