Nikhil Bhardwaj
Tribune News Service
Ludhiana, December 26
A major fire broke out in a garment factory, Sun Grace Fabric, on Kali Sadak early Sunday morning. Goods and machinery worth lakhs of rupees were gutted in the fire.
In the two-storey factory, the fire broke out on the first floor where a huge stock of goods and machinery were kept. When the fire broke out, over two dozen employees were working and they had a narrow escape as flames engulfed the entire floor within a few minutes.
Factory workers also tried to douse the flames, but failed.
Since the fire spread to the entire hall on the floor, firemen faced tough time to douse the flames. They had to break walls from some points to gain entry into the hall.
Aatish Rai, a sub fire officer, who led the team of firemen, said they received fire call at around 6 am and in a few minutes fire tenders reached the spot and started dousing the flames.
“We took four hours to completely douse the flames and around 45 fire tenders were used in the exercise,” added Rai.
Due to the raging fire, adjoining factory owners also panicked. Some of the factories were lying closed but after getting to know about the major fire incident, owners of these factories also came to their factories due to anxiety.
