At least 50 teams of the fire department were engaged to control the blaze, which broke out on Friday, officials said, adding that a team each from State Disaster Response Force and National Disaster Response Force were also pressed into service to douse the flames.
Five fire tenders were pressed into service to douse the blaze, officials said, adding that the fire was brought under control after more than two hours.
Kanpur's ADCP Lakhan Singh said, "More than 50 teams of our fire department are engaged in controlling the fire. Currently, the fire tenders have managed to control the fire on the front part of the complex, while there are still flames in some parts of the complex, which we are trying to ex
Deputy director of the UP Fire Department, Ajay Kumar told ANI, "Efforts are still being made to extinguish the fire, for which hydraulic fire tenders are being taken from Lucknow along with army vehicles and tenders have also been sought from the surrounding districts of the city".
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In a bid to douse the forest fire, raging for the last five days, Helicopters of the Indian Navy on Wednesday conducted sorties over the Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary.
"The ongoing efforts and options available for extinguishing the fire were discussed. The meeting decided to explore a flooding approach to extinguish the fire at the earliest," an official statement said.
One person died and three others were seriously injured in a fire due to a boiler explosion at a factory in the Boisar Tarapur area of Palghar district, fire department officials said on Friday.