20220111 Fire in showroom: Goods worth ₹70L destroyed
India Jan 11 2022 “Building” “Warehouses”
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Fire in showroom: Goods worth ₹70L destroyed
Updated: 2022-01-11
Mangaluru: A fire mishap was reported at the showroom of a consumer durables store near Bendoorwell in Mangaluru on Monday.
Dakshina Kannada district fire officer Bharath Kumar said that the Pandeshwar Fire Station received a call intimating them about the fire around 8.25am. The showroom had reportedly been closed for the past two days owing to the curfew. The staff walked into a smoke-filled haze when they opened the shutters in the morning on Monday. Goods worth Rs 70 lakh have been estimated to be lost in the fire t the store.
As many as four washing machines, and microwave ovens were destroyed in the fire, while the rest of the items at the store sustained damage owing to the amount of smoke they were exposed to. Since the closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras remained active, power supply to the showroom was not cut off during the weekend. It is suspected that a demo item may have caught fire owing to short circuit.
Bharath Kumar said that timely intervention helped check the spread of the fire. “One fire tender and crew were pressed to douse the fire, and the operation took 30 minutes,” he said.
Web Source: The Times of India