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Police say factory fire was arson.

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From: Lancashire Evening Post (Preston, England)
Date: 20071122
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The fire at a plastics factory near Preston is being treated as arson, police have confirmed.

Flames up to 70ft high sent huge plumes of black smoke into the air at the Preston Plastics factory in Lancaster Road, Out Rawcliffe, near Preston.

Explosive acetylene gas cylinders were engulfed as the fire took hold in the early hours of Monday, November 19.

As fire and police investigators began their probe into who may have deliberately started the fire, a spokesman for owner Edgar Wallace spoke for the first time about the incident.

Mr Wallace, 45, his wife ...

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