Plastic goods worth lakhs of rupees were gutted in fire after a major fire broke out at a godown in Old Categorised Market late in the night on Wednesday; empty plastic sacks were kept in the godown.
The fire which broke out at around 2 in the night was pacified by more than two dozen fire tender vehicles in more than 2 hours.
In-charge and on duty employee of fire brigade Deepak Singh said that the fire was massive and was controlled before it would spread to other godowns and nearby houses. The timely pacifying of fire help in saving adjacent godown of plastic goods which was much larger and had several times more plastic goods at the time of the fire. The nearby houses were vacated to avert any untoward action.
Hanumanganj police were not informed regarding the details of the incident and the owner of the godown has not reported the incident to the police.
Soon after the information of fire was received by Old Categorised Fire Brigade more than 20 vehicles were pressed into service to contain and control the fire. In the fire no injury or casualty was reported.
The owner Firoz Khan had claimed that the loss was over Rs 10 lakh but could not provide details as the godwon is used to store dumped plastic bags and sacks and other plastic goods.
The fire tenders have not provided any reason behind the fire. The fire could be short circuit borne or due to some other reason which would be investigated.