The factory had no nascent firefighting equipment built into it. PHOTO: ABID NAWAZ/ EXPRESS
RAWALPINDI: A three-storey warehouse in Rawat collapsed on Saturday evening after a fire broke out.
Rescue workers were still trying to combat the blaze till the filing of this report.
The fire broke out in a cotton warehouse in Chak Beli Khan, within the remits of Rawat police station at around 10am on Saturday morning.
With the warehouse full of cotton bales, the fire quickly spread through the building.
While rescue workers from city district government and Bahria Town were dispatched to tackle the blaze, they were unable to control it.
Eyewitnesses and firefighters said that the factory had no nascent firefighting equipment built into it.
Moreover, firefighters lamented that there was no water source available in or around the warehouse which further compounded the crisis and the task of the firefighters was made all the more difficult.
At about 6pm the building collapsed owing to the intense heat from the incessant inferno.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 26th, 2017.
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