Fire at Santa Croce tannery
02/05/2012
Firefighters spent more than two hours at the site putting the fire out after passers-by alerted them at around five o’clock in the evening. May 1 is a public holiday in Italy.
The authorities said that the scrap leather was in a separate storage facility, alongside card and wood, and that the main tannery building had come through the incident undamaged.
Like many tanneries in Santa Croce, Il Gabbiano specialises in vegetable-tanned leather for high-end bags and other leathergoods.
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