Fire broke out in a shop of soft toys located at Dispensary Road, Kotwali, Dehradun on early Tuesday morning, triggering panic among the shopkeepers and the residents.
However, the flame was put out after two fire tenders that were rushed to the spot struggled with it for nearly two and half hours. There was no casualty, though soft toys worth around lakhs of rupees are learnt to have been reduced to ashes in the blaze, said Dehradun fire station officer SP Mamgai.
He said that fire service department had been informed by the shop owner Harsh Sahgal around 1.55 am. “We acted swiftly and stopped the flames from spreading to the nearby areas. Two fire tenders were deployed at the incident site,” he added.