India News | Fire Erupts at Textile Factory in Gujarat's Surat; None Hurt

Surat, Oct 16 (PTI) A fire broke out at a textile manufacturing unit in an industrial area of Gujarat's Surat city on Monday morning, a fire official said.

While no casualties were reported in the incident, it took the fire brigade nearly three hours to completely douse the flames that destroyed textile stock, machinery and some portion of the unit in the Pandesara industrial area, chief fire officer of Surat Basant Pareek said.

Also Read | West Bengal: Union Minister Amit Shah Says 'I Will Frequently Visit State To Bring Change in Political Power Situation' (Watch Video).

All the workers had come out of the premises soon after the blaze erupted, he said.

The fire and emergency control room of the Surat Municipal Corporation received a call around 9.40 am, the official said.

Also Read | Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election 2023: From Kailash Vijayvargiya to Faggan Singh Kulaste, List of Key Candidates of BJP and Their Constituencies.

"We dispatched 15 fire tenders to douse the fire, which had engulfed a portion of the textile manufacturing unit in the Pandesara industrial area. It took nearly three hours to bring the blaze under control. Luckily, no one was injured in the incident," Pareek said.

A team from the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) will visit the site to collect samples to determine the cause of the fire, he added.

(The above story is verified and authored by Press Trust of India (PTI) staff. PTI, India’s premier news agency, employs more than 400 journalists and 500 stringers to cover almost every district and small town in India.. The views appearing in the above post do not reflect the opinions of LatestLY)