A major accident was averted after a truck carrying lPG cylinders caught fire, was pacified by fire tenders at Bima Kunj locality under Kolar police station area on Tuesday.
Panic prevailed in the area after a truck laden with lPG cylinders caught fire at around 11 am and it took around half an hour to quench the fire by the fire tenders.
The driver’s alertness averted a major accident. Driver raised an alarm which alerted the locals who rushed for the rescue place to park the vehicle. Truck was had 306 cylinders at the time of the incident and if the fire would have spread and reached the cylinders a major accident could have occurred.
The truck was initially pushed away from the petrol pump as the truck was near to a petrol pump and could have engulfed petrol pump if the cylinders would have exploded.
locals informed the fire brigade and on the receipt of the information a fire tender vehicle was rushed to the spot which pacified the fire in half an hour.
On Tuesday morning a truck bearing registration number MP09-CE -8526 which was carrying 306 lPG cylinders and was scheduled to deliver cylinder at Bairagarh Chichli from Rai gas agency at Bhauri Bakania. After the truck reached crossed Sarvadharam culvert Pull and reached near a petrol pump at Bima Kunj area the truck driver found that smoke was coming from cabin of truck and later decelerated the truck.
In the rescue operation cabin of the truck was pulled apart from the body to save the fire from spreading in the carriage of the truck. The fire was started in the engine but the reason of the fire was not found.