Massive fire brings down furniture godown
Deccan ChronicleHyderabad: A major fire in Ashoka Industries, a furniture godown at Puranapul on Wednesday afternoon, brought down the structure. Inquiries revealed that the unit which has been functioning for over a decade in the middle of a densely populated locality and in a very narrow lane has no fire safety measures. The lane was so narrow that even fire tenders could not reach the unit and were forced to stop on the main road and fight the fire, using connecting pipes. It took around four hours for seven fire tenders to completely douse the fire that broke at around 3 pm. District Fire Officer Hyderabad M. Srinivas Reddy said the coir material dumped outside the unit could have caught fire and spread into the unit, bringing down the entire structure.