A massive fire tore through a major medical products distribution centre in Tracy, California, leaving a vast warehouse complex in ruins and sending towering clouds of black smoke high into the sky.
The blaze broke out at a distribution facility operated by Medline Industries, a company that describes itself as the largest provider of medical-surgical products in the United States. Firefighters arrived shortly after 1 p.m. and found flames already racing across the roof of the enormous building.
