Fire At Witham Industrial Estate

13 June 2014, 08:55 | Updated: 13 June 2014, 08:58

Investigation work is going to begin, into how a big fire at a Witham industrial estate started, in the early hours of this morning.

All workers at Amtek Aluminium in Freebornes Road, Witham, were evacuated before firefighters arrived on scene.

It broke out in the early hours of this morning.

Police were also called to set up traffic controls around the area.

The fire was fully out at around 6.30am.

Now, a Police and Fire Service investigation will be carried out to establish the cause.

This is the 36th incident dealt with by working Essex crews since members of the FBU went on strike at 9am yesterday.

In total Essex fire service were called out to 39 emergencys over the 24 hours.