In a fire accident on Friday products worth about Rs 50 lakh were destroyed in a warehouse filled with mattresses, blankets and towels at Darshni Chowk. According to the local police, the cause of fire was a short circuit, but further investigation is ongoing.
According to official sources, it took many hours, more than 50,000 litres of water and a dozen firemen to extinguish the fire completely from the warehouse. Till the time it was fully extinguished more than 60 per cent of products inside were burnt.
The accident happened at about 5:15 in the morning. Prima facie it appears that the cause was a short circuit. Teams are investigation on the quality of wires and other related things to verify the cause.
Later at around 8 AM when it started appearing that the fire is finally extinguishing two of workers who thought the area is safe started taking the burnt material outside suddenly a flash of fire came out of nowhere.
To save those two workers a fire man came in between resulting in him sustaining severe burn directly on his face. He was immediately taken to the hospital. The fire man has been identified as Deepak Butola. Eye witnesses and few firemen have pointed that personal protective equipment is mandatory for fire men.
At least a minimum of a dozen equipment are meant to be at the disposal of Uttarakhand Fire and Emergency service department.