A major portion of an automobile air-conditioner manufacturing factory was gutted in a fire on Sunday afternoon, a fire officer said. It took over six hours to douse the blaze, in which logistics worth over Rs 1 crore were gutted. A factory employee was injured in the incident, he said.
The fire occurred at Subros Limited, an equipment supplier factory of Maruti Suzuki India Limited, in Sector-8, Phase-III, Manesar.
The fire officer said around 200 workers were present when the fire broke out in the company, in the vicinity of Maruti Udyog Limited. More than one dozen fire tenders were pressed into service from Riwari, Mewar and private fire stations to douse the raging inferno.
According to eyewitnesses, a cylinder in the molding machine exploded, following the fire, thereby spreading the inferno in the entire building. A part of the third floor of the building was damaged in
the incident.
“We heard a noise, and then a blast. We later got to know about the fire in the molding unit. We saw a part of the wall collapsing after that,” said Kuldeep Janghu, an eyewitness.
The fire officials said the cause of the blaze could not be ascertained immediately. However, company officials maintain that it was due to a short-circuit, while factory workers said a leakage from a commercial cylinder triggered the blaze.