20211013 Jharkhand: Narrow escape for 30 people as fire engulfs office in Dhanbad
India Oct 13 2021 “Apartment houses” “Building”
Dead : dead 0 or unknown Burnout : 1 to 29 Injured : injured 0 or unknown
Jharkhand: Narrow escape for 30 people as fire engulfs office in Dhanbad
Updated: 2021-10-13
SINDRI: Nearly 30 people, including women and children, had a narrow escape when a fire engulfed the office of a private insurance company office on Matkuria road in Bank More locality of Dhanbad on Tuesday morning.
According to reports, smoke billowed out of the company office located on the first floor of the Krishna Apartment at about 8.30 am after which an alarm was raised.
District fire officer V K Singh said, “We immediately rushed two fire tenders to the spot but as the fire engulfed the entire apartment, we called another fire tender from the Dhanbad fire station, two from Jharia and one more from Sindri to douse the fire. One BCCL foam tender was also pressed into service to cloak the flames and stop them from spreading to other areas of the apartment.”
It took nearly 5 hours for the seven fire tenders to douse the fire.
Since people living in other flats of the building were not able to come down because of the thick smoke, the firefighters had to break open glass panes of some flats to help the residents climb down with ladders. “One 80-year-old woman and two toddlers were among those rescued through this route,” Singh said.
The actual cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained but prima facie short circuit seems to have started the fire, Singh said, adding that the fire partly damaged a cloth shop located by the side of the insurance office.
Web Source: The Times of India