A fire broke out in State Bank of India, Tupkadih branch at Bokaro under the Jaridih police station limits, on Saturday early morning, triggering panic among hte local. Fortunatelym, none was reported injured. However, the cash and other articles were saved, said Radha Kumari Officer-in charge Jaridih police station.
Kumari suspected the blaze erupted in the bank at around 4 am due to short circuit in electricity wires inside the bank. The smokes were first spotted by a local youth who raised the alarm following which other residents informed the first Jaridih police in-charge, who herself reached the spot and alerted fire personnel.
It would have been a huge fire like Sector-4 had the timely action with help of local residents, not being taken up, branch manager said.
The fire tenders and Jaridih police patrol pary led by Radha Kumari succeeded in dousing the fire, after a struggle of ½ hours.
Dozen of locals peoples joined hands for the rescue, said an eyewitness.
Meanwhile, Bank manager Ashok Mishra, blaming the short circuit behind the eruption of fire, said they will find out the reasons behind the eruption of fire. He also thankful to the officer-in charge who took out the injective first and informed fire tenders. The district administration issued a phone no -100 dial for kind of help was resulted to save the major incident.