Was haulier's fire arson?
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by Gary AlIden and Juliet Parish • Northamptonshire-based haulier C Butt believes a LlOm fire at a warehouse used for a Texas llornecare contract was arson.
The fire gutted the 13,900m2 Tamworth warehouse over the Easter weekend: 28 trailers were damaged and seven were destroyed.
The company says it is losing £ 4,000 a day because it can only handle part of the £400,000-a
year Texas distribution contract until it finds an alternative site. Distribution director Clive Hodgkinson hopes to find premises in Northants within three weeks. Until then he is keeping 10 drivers busy by transporting garden furniture and barbecues direct from Texas distribution centres. Another 10 Texas contract drivers are working at Butt's other five main depots.
Only around 4,200m2 of the warehouse was saved from the
fire, which destroyed millions of pounds worth of Texas Homecare stock, Hodgkinson believes the lire started "under suspicious circumstances"; he has heard of similar incidents at other Texas sites.