20200810 Kolkata: Blaze engulfs building in business hub; flames doused in two hours
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Kolkata: Blaze engulfs building in business hub; flames doused in two hours
Updated: 2020–08–10
The building houses several offices, branches of a couple of banks and shops of electrical fittings on the ground floor
KOLKATA: A fire raged for over two hours in a commercial building on Pollock Street off Brabourne Road on Monday evening. Twenty fire tenders and a team of firemen and disaster management personnel of the Kolkata Police perched themselves on neighbouring high-rises and aimed water jets at the inferno to prevent it from spreading to other structures. A man who worked in an office in the five-storey building ran up to the terrace and was later rescued.
Nobody was injured in the fire. The man who was stuck on the terrace was rescued. The fire has been doused and the cooling-down process is under way. We will try to ascertain if the building has the mandatory fire-fighting preparedness,” said Jagmohan, director general of the West Bengal fire services.
The building houses several offices, branches of a couple of banks and shops of electrical fittings on the ground floor. Since most shops and offices were shut when the fire broke out, only one person was reported to be stuck inside.
All the people have been safely evacuated despite the severity of the fire. No one is inside the building,” said a senior DCP who was present at the spot. However, he said that a floor-by-floor search will be carried out once the mandatory cooling period was over.
The fire department officials said that their job of ensuring that the blaze did not spread to the buildings nearby had succeeded. The locals said they feared people could be trapped in the first and second floors. “We will be checking these places as early as possible,” said an officer.
The fire was spotted at 5.35pm in a room on the third floor. The hub of electrical goods and fittings, which is normally buzzing with activity in the evenings, was desolated as most shop keepers leave the area by 5pm nowadays due to the pandemic. As a result, the fire tenders did not face much difficulty in reaching the spot.
Usually, it is a nightmare to reach the spot of a fire anywhere in the central business district. But today most shops were shut and the roads were clear. This saved us some precious time,” said a fireman.
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