Fire breaks out at Pearl Continental hotel in Rawalpindi

Fire has been extinguished and no casualties have been reported so far


News Desk January 06, 2016

RAWALPINDI: A fire broke out at a five-star hotel in Rawalpindi in the wee hours of Wednesday, Express News reported.

Rescue workers and fire-fighters managed to extinguish the fire and no casualties were reported in the incident.

According to initial reports, the fire, whose cause is not yet known, started in a room of the hotel’s finance section. The smoke reportedly billowed to the upper floors and filled the entire multi-storey building.

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Further, rescue teams and firefighters reached the scene and managed to pull out people trapped inside the hotel and extinguish the fire.

Last week, a huge fire ripped through a luxury Dubai hotel near the world’s tallest tower, where people were gathering to watch New Year’s Eve celebrations, police said. At least 14 minor injuries, one moderate and one heart attack case reported due to overcrowding and smoke at the fire site, the Government of Dubai Media Office official Twitter feed said. “All the injured received prompts medical assistance.”

COMMENTS (3)

Auditor | 8 years ago | Reply Its audit period and since the fire started in the finance section which is in the basement enclosed and in a cell the likely cause of fire would be the auditor papers (which are a mountain) getting on fire either from someone smoking (yes they smoke a lot when conducting audit seniors as well as students) or that pile of papers catching fire from short circuiting in overloaded power sockets.
Sonya | 8 years ago | Reply In emergency situations, the hotel industry too works similar to security agencies where facts are kept protective to make people feel no-panic and continue the business as usual.
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