20160302 India Fire at Arvind Swamy’s software firm
India Mar 02 2016 “Building”
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Fire at Arvind Swamy’s software firm
Updated: 2016-03-02-11:05
Fire broke out at the software firm of actor Arvind Swamy in Alwarpet on Tuesday. An electrical short circuit could have triggered it, police said. The smoke was first spotted at the second floor of the three-storey building named ‘Oxford’ and the security guard informed fire and police personnel. Fire tenders from the Mylapore fire reached the spot at 3.30am. Soon after, fire tenders from Teynampet, Saidapet, Ashok Nagar and Bronto sky lift came in. Divisional fire officer N Vijayakumar said, “Fire was put out an hour.”
The company monitors the back-end operations of over a 100 firms in India and abroad. There were more than 100 computers in the firm and it was gutted fully. Fire and rescue personnel are assessing the loss of property.
Based on the complaint of the firm’s manager, police have registered a case and further investigations are on.
Web Source: THE TIMES OF INDIA
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