A five-member team from Mumbai including senior officials of the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) reached here to probe the major fire that broke out at a local petrol pump here on Monday evening.
The team comprising four senior IOC officials and an expert visited the Nanke Petrol Pump in the busy New Market area yesterday and took first hand information about the blaze that broke out there on October 19, official sources said today.
The team, which will stay in the city for seven days, has been asked to submit its report within two weeks, they said.
It will focus on the causes that led to the incident, which could have claimed several lives if the district administration had not responded in time, the officials said.
The team members also acquainted themselves about the damage caused by the fire.
A Central team is also expected to visit here soon to probe the matter, sources said.
According to a report, there have been eight fire incidents in petrol pumps from April to October this year in the country of which four were of serious nature but Nanke Petrol Pump's fire was biggest among them, sources said.
Two persons sustained injuries in the fire that broke out on October 19 at Nanke Petrol Pump damaging the roof of the pump, three two-wheelers and a filling machine, they added.
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