A fire broke out in Saki Naka on Thursday gutting three godowns. According to locals, the fire began at around 10.40 a.m. at a shop that manufactured noodles at Wajid Ali Compound on Khairani Road. The police said that no one was hurt in the incident.
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The fire brigade received a call at 10.43 a.m. and officers declared the blaze a Level 2 fire on reaching the spot at 11.11 a.m. Five fire engines and four jumbo tankers were pressed into action.
“The fire brigade was here within 20 minutes. Had they got late, the fire would might have spread and it would have been hard to contain it,” said Kamaluddin Shaikh, who lives next to the site of the fire. The officers said that the fire was extinguished at 1.10 p.m.
Fire officials said the fire broke out at a workshop that made noodles. “We are still investigating what caused the fire. The blaze spread to the neighbouring shops and gutted a total area of around 2,500 square feet,” said a senior fire brigade official. In December last year, 12 people died in a fire in Bhanu Farsan, a shop located a few lanes away from the site of Thursday’s blaze.
Ajitkumar Ambi, Assistant Municipal Commissioner of L Ward, said that a focused inspection drive on Khairani Road would be launched on Friday. Mr. Ambi said, “We took into consideration the complaints made by locals. While we have been consistently conducting inspection drives, we will be inspecting 30 bakeries and farsan shops and eight coal-powered laundries on Khairani Road over the next week.”
Mr. Ambi said that around 500 establishments across L Ward had been inspected over the past one month.
