Major fire breaks out at Agarwal Trade Centre, Belapur; two fire officers injured
DNMUM283681 | 8/20/2013 | Author : dna correspondent | WC :261 | Disasters & Accidents
A major fire broke out at Agarwal Trade Centre at sector 11 of CBD Belapur in the wee hours of Monday.
Fifteen to 18 offices on the fifth and sixth floor of the building were engulfed and the furniture and documents also got burnt in the fire. Two fire officials were injured in the fire.
According to the police, no one was present inside the building when the incident took place. Two watchmen, deployed at the premises, noticed the fire around 3.30am and informed the fire brigade officials as well as police about it.
"Fire brigade officials reached the spot within 10 minutes, but were able to bring the fire under control only by 9am. We are still not sure how the fire broke out when there was no activity was going on
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anywhere inside building. We suspect short circuit to be the reason behind the incident. Our investigations are on," said Rajesh Jadhav, assistant police inspector of Belapur police station.
The police are, however, unable to give an estimate of the total damages. "Agarwal Trade Centre is a commercial building and fully occupied by private offices and other institutes. The fire was a massive and appeared quite dangerous when I reached the spot around 6.30am.
Fire brigade officials were fighting hard to douse it, but it took them more than six hours to bring it under control. There have been various rumours regarding the cause of the fire, but no one has confirmed anything so far," said an employee, who works in the fourth floor of that building.
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