SAKON NAKHON: A warehouse and about 1,000 stored mattresses went up in flames in Muang district on Thursday evening.
The fire started about 6pm at a three-storey warehouse owned by New Mall department store on Rat Patana Road. About 20 fire engines and crews rushed to the scene took about five hours to control the blaze.
There were no reports of injury.
Employee Berkrerk Wongsarueda said a supplier had just delivered about 1,000 rubber mattresses to the warehouse. A while later the owner phoned an employee and said there was a fire there and asked employees to help put it out.
All efforts were fruitless and they managed to move only a few of the mattresses from the building, he said.
Pol Capt Poonsak Saenpuwa, of Muang Sakon Nakhon police station, said the warehouse had been built specifically to store mattresses. The cause of the fire was being investigated.