A fire incident was reported in a hardware warehouse at St Inez on Monday early morning. Though the fire was not intense, thick smoke emitting out of the non-ventilating premises gave a tough time for the firefighters to douse the flames.
Station fire officer Dilip Gawas informed that the control room received a call around 5:45 am informing about the incident after which a fire tender was rushed to the site. Reinforcement was sent after 6 am. Around 21,000 liters of water were used by 15 fire officials to douse the flames. The exercise took around three hours as the go down contained plywood, fevicol and modular kitchen sets.
Fortunately, no casualty was reported and timely action saved other nearby areas from catching fire.
