Two bikes gutted in battery warehouse blaze

Lucknow: A fire broke out in a battery warehouse in Sanjay Gandhipuram area of Indiranagar on Monday afternoon. Although no one was injured, a battery explosion caused a scooter and an adjacent automobile to catch fire, prompting firemen to evacuate the nearby houses.
"The control room of fire station Indiranagar received information at around 4pm. Two fire tenders were pressed into service.The fire had engulfed the entire warehouse," said Mangesh Kumar, CFO, Lucknow.
This is the fifth incident of fire in a godown in a month, with four incidents in the city in Oct prompting the fire department to draw up plans to conduct electrical safety audits across warehouses.
"Earlier, we sent notices to hospitals and hotels across the city post-electrical audits. Now, the fire department is planning to send notices to big warehouses and godowns," Kumar told TOI.
He added that electrical audits will be conducted at these places. It will be checked if they have NoCs, and notices will be served to those violating safety procedures, followed by action.