KOLKATA: Three people have been significantly injured when a blaze fuelled via inflammable adhesives swept through a glue production unit-cum-godown situated reverse Welland Gouldsmith School on BB Ganguly Street on Monday morning.
A fourth person who used to be stuck at the first ground escaped unharmed when locals rescued him with the assistance of a ladder.
The fireplace, which is believed to have originated from the bottom ground of 70 Metcalfe Street, travelled to the first ground with such speed that people working there did not get sufficient time to escape. The asbestos roof used to be totally gutted and the iron grills within the verandah have been twisted inside a few minutes of the incident.
Rameswar Mahabir, 48, Alok Kumar, 17, and Gyanendra Lekka, 48, all of whom worked within the production unit have been rushed to Calcutta Medical College and Hospital with 80, 50 and 47% burns respectively.
Five fireplace tenders took virtually two hours to douse the flames. Since the school is situated across the highway from the gutted unit, it used to be no longer affected. But since BB Ganguly Street is a a very powerful connector between Sealdah and the central business district in Dalhousie, the visitors used to be disrupted for nearly 45 minutes.
“The position used to be stacked with adhesive, turpentine oil and thinner all of which might be highly inflammable. We did not to find any fire-fighting mechanism within the unit. We have no idea the precise reason of fireplace however it sort of feels a short-circuit can have brought on the blaze. A forensic take a look at will disclose the real reason of fireplace,” mentioned Kamal Kumar Nandi, the divisional fireplace officer supervising the rescue operation.
The fireplace broke out a little after 9am and the fire division won the alert at nine.20am. The affected unit is situated on BB Ganguly Street reverse Welland Gouldsmith School and a few hundred meters from the police headquarters in Lalbazar.
Nandi additionally mentioned that the fire used to be so intense that it had rendered the structure of the development weak. “The fireplace did not burn for lengthy nevertheless it used to be so intense that it damaged the bodily structure. The asbestos roof is completely burnt and even iron grills have melted. The intensity used to be high due to the presence of highly inflammable issues inside,” mentioned Nandi.
“The three of them paintings within the unit and keep there at night time. In the morning they in most cases start their paintings at around 9am which is when the fire broke out. According to eye-witnesses account, they all have been busy working inside when the fire broke out. The fireplace spread so swiftly that they could no longer escape,” mentioned an officer of Bowbazar police station.
A fourth person who used to be stuck at the first ground escaped unharmed when locals rescued him with the assistance of a ladder.
The fireplace, which is believed to have originated from the bottom ground of 70 Metcalfe Street, travelled to the first ground with such speed that people working there did not get sufficient time to escape. The asbestos roof used to be totally gutted and the iron grills within the verandah have been twisted inside a few minutes of the incident.
Rameswar Mahabir, 48, Alok Kumar, 17, and Gyanendra Lekka, 48, all of whom worked within the production unit have been rushed to Calcutta Medical College and Hospital with 80, 50 and 47% burns respectively.
Five fireplace tenders took virtually two hours to douse the flames. Since the school is situated across the highway from the gutted unit, it used to be no longer affected. But since BB Ganguly Street is a a very powerful connector between Sealdah and the central business district in Dalhousie, the visitors used to be disrupted for nearly 45 minutes.
“The position used to be stacked with adhesive, turpentine oil and thinner all of which might be highly inflammable. We did not to find any fire-fighting mechanism within the unit. We have no idea the precise reason of fireplace however it sort of feels a short-circuit can have brought on the blaze. A forensic take a look at will disclose the real reason of fireplace,” mentioned Kamal Kumar Nandi, the divisional fireplace officer supervising the rescue operation.
The fireplace broke out a little after 9am and the fire division won the alert at nine.20am. The affected unit is situated on BB Ganguly Street reverse Welland Gouldsmith School and a few hundred meters from the police headquarters in Lalbazar.
Nandi additionally mentioned that the fire used to be so intense that it had rendered the structure of the development weak. “The fireplace did not burn for lengthy nevertheless it used to be so intense that it damaged the bodily structure. The asbestos roof is completely burnt and even iron grills have melted. The intensity used to be high due to the presence of highly inflammable issues inside,” mentioned Nandi.
“The three of them paintings within the unit and keep there at night time. In the morning they in most cases start their paintings at around 9am which is when the fire broke out. According to eye-witnesses account, they all have been busy working inside when the fire broke out. The fireplace spread so swiftly that they could no longer escape,” mentioned an officer of Bowbazar police station.
Fire breaks out at Kolkata glue manufacturing unit, 3 injured
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