Ahmedabad: A major fire broke out at a plastic packaging manufacturing firm in Phase-4 of Vatva GIDC area at around 8pm on Friday after which Ahmedabad Fire and Emergency Services (AFES) officials gave a brigade call and rushed 38 fire tenders and nearly 100 fire brigade personnel to douse the fire.
No casualty or injuries have been reported in the incident till late on Friday evening, said an AFES officer, adding that things will be clear after the fire is doused completely.
According to a fire brigade official, the fire broke out at Marudhar Industries Pvt Ltd.
The company manufactures aluminium foil food container, plastic pouches for food packaging and zipped plastic pouches, said a fire brigade officer, adding that the materials are inflammable due to which it was very hard to control the fire.
The officer said that earlier four fire tenders were sent to the spot as they got a call that flames erupted after a blast in a boiler at the company. Later, the fire brigade deployed 12 more vehicles and when it became difficult to douse the flames, the AFES gave the brigade call and rushed all 38 vehicles at its disposal to the spot.
Local residents said they constantly heard blasts and flames could be seen from 1km away. Fire-fighting was on at the time of going to press.