Property worth over Rs40 Lakh on fire

Firefighters of NMC’s fire and emergency services department attends to three more fire calls on same Tuesday night

On Tuesday night, a property worth over Rs 40 lakh was destroyed in a major fire at a ground plus three commercial-cum-residential building on Besa Road. The cause of the fire is yet to be confirmed for no casualty was reported said the fire department official.

As per reports, at around 11:50 pm the fire broke out at Sai Shraddha Apartment. The first two floors of the building including the ground floor were used for commercial purposes.

The ground floor has two establishments- one footwear shop owned by Ram Ramesh Bhoyar and another eating joint owned by Krushikesh Patel. It is being speculated that the fire might have started from the ground floor which engulfed the first floor and then damaged the residential flats on the second and the third floor said an official.

The Bhoyar’s footwear shop was completely cleared out and the loss is estimated to be around Rs 15lakh. Even the food joint that caught on fire, the loss is estimated at around Rs 30,000.

The fire spread and caught the bakery which was on the first floor. Raw materials and equipment starting from refrigerator, oven, computer and laptops etc worth over Rs25 lakh was lost. Eventually the firefighters were successfully able to tame the fire.

The firefighters succeeded to control the fire before it reached the household items that were inside the flat. Three more fire calls were attended by the firefighters of NMC’s fire and emergency services department on Tuesday night.

It included two houses near Lokmanya Nagar Metro Station on Hingna Road, near Sadar Azad Chowk and a decoration firm in Navi Shukrawari. While the first fire erupted due to leakage in gas cylinders, the second was due to electric fault and the third one was a result of bursting firecrackers.