A massive fire broke out at the SBI branch situated at the ground floor of Panchanan building in New Market area on Sunday evening; in the fire no one was injured. Around seven fire tender vehicles were pressed into service to pacify the fire which broke out at around 6 pm at the SBI branch situated at the Panchanan building. It took around two hours to pacify the fire by more than a dozen fire fighters put hard efforts to pacify the short circuit borne fire. The circumstantial evidences suggest that the fire broke out due to a short circuit. The damages could not be ascertained at the moment and the details could be revealed after the inspection of bank officials.
Furniture and reception area is reportedly damaged. The damaged to the official documents and documents related to customers was not reported in the fire. Fire could have damaged adversely but the swift action by the fire tenders and alert locals saved the huge possible damages. Huge flames were witnessed after the fire spread rapidly across the floor and on the upper floors but before the upper floors could get fire it was controlled.New market area is a busy market place and remains crowded at Sunday but fortunately no casualty was reported and no one was injured.The locals raised alarm after spotting fumes from the back side of the SBI banlk located at the first floor and as it was a non working day the employees were not present.