Giving details, CFO Ghaziabad said, "After receiving the information of fire in a scrap godown in the Raj Nagar area, three fire tenders from Kotwali fire station and two fire tenders from Vaishali fire station were rushed to the spot.
"The fire broke out in the dumping ground of Noida sector 32. Efforts are on to extinguish the blaze. All the officials are present on the spot," said Shakti Awasthi, additional deputy commissioner of police (ADCP) in Noida.
The acting minister of Mines and Petroleum, Shahabuddin Delawar, announced on Sunday that the ministry would shortly begin the bedding process to extract some of the oil and gas from fields in the country soon.
Massive fire broke out on Saturday in a chemical factory due to a short circuit in the Parsakhera Industrial Area of Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly, said police. The residents of the surrounding area have been evacuated as a precautionary measure. Six fire tenders are present at the spot. Detai
Fire tenders took about three hours to bring the blaze under control after which a body of a woman, Maya (30) was found in the bathroom of the basement.