Short-circuiting: Fire destroys shoe factory inventories

Rescue 1122 officials said fire had erupted in one of the rooms of the two-storey building.

LAHORE:

Inventory worth hundreds of thousands of rupees burned down in a fire that broke out in a shoe factory at Bund Road on Thursday.

Rescue 1122 officials said the fire had erupted in one of the rooms of the two-storey building. They said the fire spread rapidly due to flammable materials that had been stored there.

They said 15 fire fighting vehicles were used to extinguish the fire. Malik Arshad, owner of the factory, told the police the fire broke out due to electric short circuiting in UPS wires in one of the rooms.  A man suffering from smoke inhalation was given first aid on the scene.

No other casualty was reported.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 11^th, 2014.