Vape Dinner Lady breaks silence on huge Blackburn fire

Fire crews and 10 engines tackled the fire at Shadsworth Business Park and Industrial Estate at 8pm, home to Vape Dinner Lady offices and storage units.

Photo credit: John Warren

Huge plumes of smoke could be seen from the industrial estate, with fire crews also still working today (Wednesday, September 13) to protect flammable material in adjoining factory yards.

Witnesses said the fire quickly spread across the warehouse and security from the affected factory were ushering people away, asking them move away from the car park areas.

Photo credit: Paula Forrest

A Vape Dinner Lady spokesman said: "Following the fire at Dinner Lady’s UK e-liquid manufacturing operation, we would like to re-assure our customers that our business operation is open and continuing as usual.

"Most importantly, we can report that no one was hurt in the fire and that all our members are safe and well, thanks to the actions of our headquarters team and the local fire and emergency rescue teams.

"As one the world’s leading e-liquid brands, Dinner Lady has a network of established manufacturing facilities located across multiple international centres which are in constant use and operation to support our UK facility.

"Currently, our team are engaged in moving production which would have been made in the UK to our other facilities, to minimise any potential disruption which may occur as a result of the fire.

"We anticipate that the majority of customers will not experience any change to their scheduled orders however some customers may experience interruption, and we will work with those impacted to ensure any disruption is mitigated efficiently. We are continuing to welcome new orders through our usual process.

"We are deeply moved by the many messages of support we have received overnight and we hope to be in touch with you very soon once we have visibility of the impacts of the incident."