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Three incidents of fire in city, none injured

Kolkata: Fire broke out at three places in the city on Saturday and Sunday. None was, however, hurt in these fire incidents.

According to police, on Saturday night around 11:45 pm, fire broke out inside a meter box near the emergency ward of Bangur Institute of Neurology.

As the impression of recent fire incident at Calcutta Medical College is still on the minds of people, the patients got panic-stricken.

The relatives of the patients were waiting eagerly thinking if there keens needed to be shifted elsewhere.

But nothing such happened as one fire tender quickly reached the spot and doused the flames within 15 minutes. It is assumed that the fire occurred due to some electrical disorder.

Another fire incident occurred on the top floor of a six-storied building on Park Street. At around 11:30 pm on Saturday, a fire broke out at the office of a herbal product company. The fire spread to the whole office immediately.

Four fire tenders were pressed in to action. While firefighters were trying to put off the fire, a portion of the building was evacuated for safety reasons. The owner of the building was also informed.

After almost two hours at around 1:25 am, the fire was controlled. In this case as well, the fire brigade personnel assumed the fire might have occurred due to an electrical disorder.

In another incident early on Sunday morning, a moving light goods vehicle caught fire on Belvedere Road near Alipore zoo.

At around 5:05 am, the driver of the vehicle felt the heat while driving. Almost immediately he noticed smoke billowing out of the frontal part of the vehicle.

He stopped the vehicle and got down without losing a second. After getting off from the vehicle, he informed the police and fire brigade.

One fire tender doused the fire within half an hour. The damage and cause of fire is yet to be ascertained.

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