Massive fire guts Fantic site and destroys bikes

A fire has swept through the Fantic production sheds at Treviso in Italy leaving bikes and machinery destroyed and causing a million Euros of damage.

The fire broke out around midnight on Wednesday August 5, ten fire engines attended the blaze with the first unit arriving on site at 1.15am.

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According to reports, the majority of Fantic stock on site was stored in sheds not affected by the fire. But the level of damage is already being costed up at a million Euro.

So far there has been no announcement by Fantic as to whether the fire will effect supply of motorcycles in the immediate future.

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