Books and stationary items worth lakhs of rupees were gutted in a massive fire that broke out in a stationary shop at Alaapura in Rawjibazar locality of the city. It almost took nine-and-half hours for the fire brigade and 27 tankers to put off the fire.
The incident took place at 5 am on Thursday when fire broke out at book and stationary shop Mahesh Book Depot located near Pagnispasa water tank at Alaapura under Rawjibazaar police station. After being informed about the incident, fire tenders rushed to the incident site to put off the fire. However, due to insufficient water, the fire fighting persons faced inconvenience to put off fire. The delay in putting off fire enraged local people. They were however, calmed down by the intervention of police jawans.
Though fire brigade professionals intimated Municipal Corporation to send fire tankers at the incident site, it was fairly after a long time the water tankers of IMC arrived at the incident site.
It almost took over nine hours and 27 water tankers to put off the fire completely, said fire brigade SI B S Hudda while talking to this newspaper.