A massive fire broke out at the Space Application Centre (SAC) of Indian
Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Thursday. It took more than 100
firemen five hours to douse the fire, the cause of which is still being
investigated.
Officials of the Ahmedabad Fire and Emergency
Services (AFES said the operation involved 25 firefighting vehicles,
water bowsers, fire tenders and blowers and about 100 personnel from
seven fire stations across the city – Navrangpura, Bodakdev, Thaltej,
Danapith, Panchkuva, Shahpur and Maninagar.
In a press note, SAC
said the fire was brought under control within 1.5 hours and that two
CISF personnel and two firemen were treated for breathlessness at a
nearby hospital.
Asenior official of SAC said, “It is too dark to gauge damage at the
moment and the cause of it. Primarily it doesn’t look like there was any
major damage to project components.”
Speaking on when the fire
started, the official said, “Smoke was noticed to be billowing from the
building during lunch hours. Researchers had left the building at the
time of fire and were on their way to lunch.”
Ahmedabad Municipal
Commissioner Mukesh Kumar and Collector Vikrant Pandey were present at
the spot. Pandey said, “Equipment related to antennae testing, a
simulator and other materials of the testing lab including the lining of
the wall which was covered with foam have been burnt. However, there
was no casualty in the fire.”
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