PANAJI
Despite being closely located to the Berger Becker Coatings Pvt. Ltd factory at the Pilerne Industrial estate which was engulfed in a massive fire on Tuesday evening, priests, seminarians and other residents at the Saligao Seminary were very relieved to have been unaffected by the fire mishap.
When contacted, Rector of Saligao Seminary Fr Valerian Vaz said the seminary is about 1 km radius of the factory.
“We were relieved that the wind was blowing towards the south east and away from our seminary. As a result, we did not get affected by the smoke or the smell,” said Fr Vaz.
“We were offered assistance by some kind persons in case we wanted to shift to safer areas, but we did not feel the need to move out of the seminary,” said Fr Vaz.
