20210818 Fire breaks out in zilla parishad’s new building
India Aug 18 2021 “Building” “Office bldg.”
Dead : dead 0 or unknown Burnout : 1 to 29 Injured : injured 0 or unknown
Fire breaks out in zilla parishad’s new building
Updated: 2021-08-18
NAGPUR: Hundreds of zilla parishad broke out on the second floor of the new administrative building in Civil Lines on Tuesday.
The incident also brought to fore that the ground-plus-3 storey building has no fire safety compliance certificate issued by the NMC’s fire and emergency services department.
At around 1.20pm, the NMC’s control room received a call about fire in one of the offices on the second floor of the ZP building.
“The fire started from a switch board and alert ZP staff doused it with the help of an extinguisher installed there,” a fire official told TOI. Before fire tender from the Civil Lines station reached there, the trained staff had doused the flame, said the official. “When the fire broke out, all staff and even many visitors were present in the building,” he added.
A senior official from the NMC’s fire department confirmed that the civic body had conducted fire audit and submitted suggestions to the ZP in March 2018. “We had suggested a slew of measures including installing hose reel, hose box, wet riser, yard hydrant around the building, manually operated electric fire alarm system, underground static water storage tank, terrace tank with pumps, sign indicators for evacuation of occupants in case of an emergency, among others,” he said. But nothing has happened so far.
ZP CEO Yogesh V Kumbhejkar confirmed this and claimed that after today’s incident, work to replace switch boards and regulators has been started. He said the work of installation of firefighting equipment like smoke detectors and sprinklers will also be taken up.
Rs5L goods gutted at grocery store In another incident, electrical appliances including refrigerators, air conditioners and frozen food worth over Rs5 lakh were destroyed on Tuesday when a fire broke out at Purushottam Kirana Bazar near Hingna T-point.
The fire department received a call from the store at around 9am. Soon a fire tender from Narendra Nagar station reached there and doused the flames. Short circuit had caused the fire, said a fire department official.
Web Source: The Times of India