Kolkata: A fire broke out at a mixture factory located in the New Market area on Tuesday night. Similarly, another fire broke out at a leather goods manufacturing unit in Topsia on Wednesday night. No casualty has been reported in any of
the incidents.
On Tuesday night around 10:45 pm, locals noticed smoke coming out of the mixture factory near New market on Nilmoni Halder Lane.
Within a while, the fire started spreading. Locals started the operation to douse the flames. Police and fire brigade were informed.
Around five fire tenders were pressed into action. As the factory was stashed with inflammable materials, the fire spread within no time.
Though fire fighters started dousing the flames on a war footing, they faced problems because of the lane being very narrow. Fire was controlled around 1:15 am. Later, the cooling process went on for almost an hour.
According to sources, the fire fighters had alleged that there was no fire fighting mechanism in place at the factory despite having inflammable materials.
Fire minister Sujit Bose visited the spot at night and supervised the work. It is suspected that the fire occurred due to a short-circuit.
In the other incident, a fire started on the second floor of a high-rise building in Topsia on Wednesday around
8:35 pm.
Sources informed that locals noticed smoke billowing out of the third floor.
Later, it was identified that the fire had occurred at a leather manufacturing
unit there.
As the materials stored inside the factory were highly inflammable, locals feared that the fire might spread to other areas as well.
On receiving information, seven fire tenders were pressed into action. The fire was controlled almost after two hours.
The cause of fire could not be ascertained. No one was injured due to the incident.