Rajasthan: Department on toes after two fire mishaps

Two major incidents of fire outbreak occurred in the city on Wednesday keeping the fire and police officials on their toes. For over four hours, the fire and police officials were continuously running from pillar to post between two outbreaks to negate any collateral damage and succeeded in their attempts. While the first outbreak occurred at a thermocol and plastic factory, the second outbreak occurred at a transport company’s godown. Raw material and goods worth lakhs are suspected to have been destroyed in the fire, however, an exact estimate of the damage is yet to be made.

At about 10.30 AM, the city’s fire control room received a phone call wherein the caller informed the duty officer of a fire at a plastic and thermocol factory located at Vishwakarma Industrial (VKI) Area. “It was informed that a huge outbreak had occurred due to the presence of highly inflammable materials at Govindam Enterprises factory located on plot number B-123 on road number nine in VKI area. Immediately, the information was passed to VKI fire station which pressed two tenders into service,” officials said.

The firefighters rushed to the spot, however, upon reaching they realised that the outbreak could not be curbed by just two tenders and thus a request was made for additional tenders to be rushed to the spot. “Meanwhile, the firefighters started dousing the fire which had spread in almost the entire factory premises. However, the fire was getting the better of the firefighters’ efforts. Soon, the additional fire tenders arrived on the scene and gave a shot in the arm to the officials’ efforts. For nearly two hours, the fire raged on, however, the firefighters did not give up and continued their efforts. The police meanwhile were busy in helping the firefighters and also keeping the people at bay and managing the vehicular movement,” officials said.

Factories and godowns near to the spot were also vacated so that no ill occurrence happens. “While this was going on, we received another alert that an outbreak had occurred at a transport company’s godown located on road number fourteen. Since all the fire tenders were already employed at the fire at the factory, a request was made to other fire stations of the city to send their tenders for the second fire,” officials said.

Factory in flames

The firefighters rushed to the spot, however, upon reaching they realised that the outbreak could not be curbed by just two tenders and thus a request was made for additional tenders to be rushed to the spot. “Meanwhile, the firefighters started dousing the fire which had spread in almost the entire factory premises. However, the fire was getting the better of the firefighters’ efforts,” officials said.

The Other Mishap

The second fire had occurred at plot C-950B wherein a godown operated by Jain Transport is located. “There are ten fire stations in Jaipur and of there five tenders from VKI Fire station were already employed in the factory fire. When the information about second outbreak was received, simultaneously request was received about additional tenders for the factory fire at road number nine. Thus in all nine fire tenders – one each from the remaining fire stations of Jaipur – were pressed into service,” officials said.