Smoke Inhalation: Fire Service

smoke inhalation: Hampshire fire service said in the early hours of Wednesday that four of its firefighters had been treated for smoke inhalation, according to The Guardian. In a statement, the fire service said the blaze had been declared a major incident and part of the roof collapsed, adding The fire in the robot-run distribution centre is now under control and it is no longer a major incident. About 200 firefighters and 20 fire engines were sent to the blaze, which began at the Andover facility at about 2 45am on Tuesday. The online grocery retailer has been forced to cancel thousands of customer deliveries due to the fire. The company's share price dipped when the first reports of the fire emerged at lunchtime on Tuesday, before investors returned to focusing on the annual results published earlier in the day and the announcement of a new one-hour grocery delivery service, Ocado Zoom, to compete more directly with Amazon. The warehouse handles more than 4,000 orders a day and uses hundreds of robots to select groceries from a 3D frame called the grid . Ocado said We will assess the damage this incident has caused and will update further as appropriate. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.