Two firemen were injured fighting a massive fire that broke out at a godown of wood materials at Nariyalkheda late in the night on Thursday; wood material worth lakhs of rupees were in gutted in fire which was controlled after 10 hours.
The fire took massive shape after the fire tender vehicles were not able to reach the spot to pacify the fire due to very narrow passage to reach the godown.
Goods worth lakhs of rupees were gutted in fire which spread rapidly at around 1.30 in the night. After the locals spotted the flames erupting from the godown police and fire brigade were informed.
On the receipt of the information fire tender vehicles were rushed to the spot.
The fire tenders were not able to control the fire for 10 hours as the godown was located where the road was very congested making it hard to reach the spot.
Fire tender officials told that several pipes were used to pacify the fire as there was no other way to reach the spot and which took time and resulted into the spreading of the fire.
The fire which broke out at around 1 in the night was controlled at around 9 am and was pacified at around 3 pm. More than three dozen fire tender vehicles were deployed to pacify the fire.
During the controlling of fire, fire tenders Mohammad Iftekhar and Iftekhar Ali sustained burn injuries and was rushed to Hamidia hospital where his condition is reportedly stable while residents were evacuated safely and no one was injured in the incident. The godwon was owned by Saud Ali of Malipura and it was used for scarp trade.