Kanpur: Two firemen were injured during a rescue operation at a cardboard warehouse at site no 1 in Panki 1 after a massive fire broke out there on Friday morning.
Fire department personnel Sadanand suffered injuries after a major portion of wall at the entrance of the warehouse caved in while fire personnel Sachin Kumar suffered deep cuts while trying to remove glass partition during the rescue operation in the warehouse. The two have been admitted to Lala Lajpat Rai Hospital for treatment.
“They had also inhaled some noxious gases, so they both have been kept under observation,” a doctor at LLR told TOI.
Fire officer Kailash Chandra said a massive fire broke out during packaging work at a warehouse in Panki’s site no: 1 during the wee hours of Friday. The cause of the fire is suspected to be electric short-circuit, he said.
Even as four fire tenders were pressed into service to douse the blaze, fire spread to a huge dump of combustible material in the warehouse. “During the rescue operation, our two firemen got trapped and suffered injuries. They were, however, rescued by other firemen and rushed to LLR Hospital,” he added.
In another incident, a major fire broke out at a grocery shop in Khoya Bazar area under Moolganj police station limits early on Friday morning. No injuries were reported.