栃木の工場で火事、30時間燃え続ける

Welcome to Japanese Daily News. I'm Maya. Today is October thirteenth. Tonight: a fire at a plastics factory in Tochigi burned for about thirty hours. Let's listen.

Now let's break it down.

Early on the twelfth, there was a big fire at a factory in Tochigi Prefecture.

It means a fire, like a house or building fire.

The fire was at a factory of a company that makes plastic products.

It means products, or manufactured goods.

At about ten past five in the morning, someone called the fire department about smoke from a warehouse.

It means smoke.

It means a report to the police or fire department.

The factory runs twenty-four hours a day, but nobody was inside the warehouse when the fire started.

It means a warehouse.

All forty-six workers got out safely, and no one was hurt.

It means evacuating to a safe place.

It means injured people.

A lot of plastic products and materials were stored in the warehouse.

The fire spread from the warehouse to part of the factory building.

It means for a fire to spread.

Thirty-eight fire engines and other vehicles worked through the night to put out the fire.

It means a fire engine.

It means all night long.

But big lumps of plastic kept burning inside, and the fire would not go out.

It means a lump or a big mass.

At about ten fifty on the morning of the thirteenth, the fire was finally brought under control.

It means brought under control, with no more danger of spreading.

About thirty hours had passed since the first call.

It means the first.

The factory is surrounded by fields, and the fire did not reach any nearby homes.

It means for fire to jump to something else.

Police and firefighters are looking into what caused the fire.

It means the cause.

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Quiz time. Listen and answer.

Forty-six people.

Lumps of plastic kept burning in the warehouse.

About thirty hours.

That's all for tonight. Thanks for listening. See you next time.