UPDATED: Flames one year after infamous blaze

As of Tuesday, June 12, 2012

By CELESTE NIXON

Tribune Staff Reporter

cnixon@tribunemedia.net

THOSE who live and work in the Wulff Road area had a sense of déja vu Tuesday, when, almost a year after the infamous 2011 AID blaze, another fire broke out at the site.

One year and two days after the area had to be evacuated because of the threat of explosions when the flagship location of Automotive Industrial Distributors (AID) burst into flames, witnesses reported seeing smoke rising from the same spot.

"People got scared when they saw the smoke, because it was dark and the wind was blowing – we thought it could end up being another big one, but thankfully it didn't," said a worker at the nearby Bamboo Shack.

Police Fire Branch officers were alerted to the fire at around 9.20am and were on the scene within five minutes, Fire Chief Walter Evans said.

The fire is thought to have been sparked by a welder's torch.

AID fire last June.

positiveinput 11 years, 10 months ago

What were they storing in that car wash cause its hard to swallow that regular machinery that was in there could produce all that flame. Out with the old to make space for the new aye.

JustThinking 11 years, 10 months ago

Like the sayin goes, where there's smoke there's fire! Commonsense dictates dey wan collect insurance money. Couldn't afford to just bulldoze the building?

Clearly Aid has a passion 4 storing flammables and unmentionables on their property. Who the in the world is store welder's torches in a heated place like dat.

More dan likely dey being Cost cutters. Do dey store stuff behind buildings too? Illegal dumping of oils, chemicals? What else dey hiding, i mean storing?

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