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The fire in the Pasha building on Badsha Mia Road in Matuail, Demra, has finally been brought under control. The fire service was able to control the fire after burning for 10 hours. It has 150 fighters from 16 fire brigade units. At 2.15pm on Thursday (November 5), Mahfuz Riben, an officer on duty in the control room of the Fire and Civil Defense Service, confirmed that the fire was under control. He said the fire was brought under control at two in the morning. Meanwhile, the owner of the Jalil Pasha building said that he has spent at least Tk 15 crore for the construction of this building. The fire that broke out on the sixth floor of the building burned three to nine floors.
Why do you have to catch up to put out the fire?
The director general of the Fire Services (DG), Brigadier General Sajjad Hossain, told reporters at the scene that the entire building had not been planned. There was nowhere in the vicinity. Most of the ten-story building was filled with material. There is no work environment to put out the fire. Just a narrow path. Canals on both sides of that road. The crane has risen risking the ladder. Turning the crane is not going to work. Only cranes can be used here. As a result, it took time to control the fire.
Did the whole building after the fire spread to six floors?
The fire broke out on the sixth floor of the multi-story building called Pasha Tower around 5 p.m. Before that, the workers on that floor were out at around 4 in the afternoon. At one point the intensity of the fire increased and spread to the top 10 floors. Initially it was known that there are only electronic products with lights on the sixth floor. Later it was learned that the entire building was the warehouse of an organization called Energy Lighting Limited. Which caused the fire to spread rapidly to another floor.
Victims and damages
The fire service has yet to comment on the damage. But the owner of the building says that the LED lights imported from China were kept in the warehouse. There were goods worth 200 million rupees. All of which have been reduced to ashes. However, so far no casualties have been reported.
The start of the fire
The fire service says the sixth floor of the building was used as a power light store. That’s where the fire started. However, there is speculation with the electrical short circuit. Due to the large amount of combustible material, the fire immediately spread to other floors.
Incidentally, a fire broke out at the Pasha Tower light factory on Konapara Madrasa Road in the capital’s Demra on Thursday (November 5) at 5pm. 150 members of the fire service who work in fire control, as well as members of the RAB, police, Red Crescent and Rover Scouts. The fire started on the sixth floor of the building.
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