Fire destroys products worth several crores of rupees
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Fire and Rescue Services personnel fight the fire that broke out at the Sical godown in Thoothukudi on Friday. | Photo Credit: RAJESH N
Materials worth several crores of rupees were destroyed in a fire that broke out in a godown at SIPCOT Industrial Complex here on Friday evening. Sources in the Fire and Rescue Services Department said the fire broke out on Friday evening in SICAL Multimodal and Rail Transport Limited’s container freight station in SIPCOT Industrial Complex, where garments, toys, waste paper bundles, raw cotton, rugs, coir pith etc. had been stocked in a 200 meter-long godown with 8 entries wide enough to allow a truck to enter the godown.
Fire accident at defunct thermal power station
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The fire that broke out at a private defunct thermal power station near Thoothukudi on Saturday. | Photo Credit: Handout
Fire broke out at a private defunct thermal power station near here on Saturday. Though no casualty was reported in the fire accident, the mishap destroyed few lakhs worth equipment at the thermal power station that was inoperative for the past five years. Police said the fire reportedly broke-out in a transformer on Saturday afternoon and spread to other parts of the private thermal power station at Velayuthapuram near here. On information from the thermal power station authorities, Fire and Rescue Services personnel from SIPCOT rushed to the spot and commenced fire-fighting operations.