Fire Breaks Out In Bengal Govt Office In Central Kolkata, No Casualty Reported

A fire broke out in the Public Health Engineering Department office located in Ganesh Chandra Avenue in Central Kolkata on Thursday. No casualty has been reported.

Ten fire tenders pressed into service to douse the fire on the fourth floor of the Public Health Engineering office.

Source : ANI

A fire broke out in a multi-storey government office building in Central Kolkata in West Bengal on Thursday. According to PTI, multiple fire tenders were rushed to the spot and efforts were underway to douse the fire in the building at Ganesh Chandra Avenue, the city's central business district. As per the report, there were ten fire tenders pressed into service to douse the fire on the fourth floor of the building that houses a division of the state government's Public Health Engineering Department.

The fire was reported at around 10 AM, an official told PTI. 

#WATCH | West Bengal: Fire breaks out at a 5-story building in Ganesh Chandra Avenue of Central Kolkata. Fire tenders present at the spot, and efforts underway to control the fire. More details awaited. pic.twitter.com/Ras03fpWfD

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While there were no damage to the property and no casualty was reported, the official said that all the papers and documents were destroyed in the fire.

"None was injured in the fire as the office staff were yet to arrive. We are trying to douse it as quickly as possible. It seems all the documents and papers inside the department have been destroyed in the fire," the official said.

The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained. The building houses other state government departments, including the transport and the PHE department.

The fire incident comes just over a month after the massive fire in Howrah in which over 100 shops were gutted in a market area. The fire broke out at Ludlow Bazar in Chengail in the Uluberia police station area. Ten fire tenders brought the blaze under control after fighting it for over four hours, according to PTI.