Fire in rubber godown

Hyderabad,Oct 27: A rubber  godown of Venkateswara Enterprises   in the cellar of  Bahrani  Complex was gutted in  fire on Tuesday morning. The  incident  took place at the  Minister’s  Road  in Begumpet , Secunderabad.Thick black smoke billowed from the building as the rubber articles stored in the godown caught fire. The  thick smoke disrupted the  traffic.Six  fire  tenders  from  the nearby  fire stations  were  pressed into service and  they had to struggle  nearly for hours together  to contain the fire.Some of  the occupants living in the  near by residential  flats  were shifted to   safer places  as  the  smoke   which  billowed  from the    cellar engulfed the  surrounding areas leaving the people  suffocated.

The  traffic  on the  Minister’s  Road  in Secunderabad  came  to  a grinding halt  and  there was no  vehicular  traffic till Ranigunj on this  road.The  thirty  shops in the  area  where the fire mishap took place  were  closed.  According to the  owners  of these  shops  they had  already complained to the   authorities  about the  danger of  the  presence of a  rubber  godown in a  residential  area  of this   sort but  our complaint was  not   taken  car  of  by the authorities.Two bogies destroyed in fire Meanwhile  there  is  another  fire  mishap  in the  Moulali  railway  shed  where two bogies  caught fire. The fire was soon brought  under control  and  no one   was injured.