New Delhi: A huge fire broke out in a multi-storey office building in West Delhi's Pitampura on Sunday, damaging gutting much of the building's top floors but with no reports of casualties.
Security guards saw smoke saw smoke coming out from a ventilation panel on the tenth floor of the building and raised an alarm. People posted images of billowing clouds of smoke on social media.
The fire department said they received the call for the fire around 4:25 pm and dispatched 22 vehicles to bring the fire under control.
By around 7:30 pm officials said they had completely doused the fire. "The situation is under control. There are no casualties," a fire officer Rajesh Pawar told news agency ANI.
Being a Sunday, the office was closed with just few people who managed to exit the building safely.
The building is close to the Netaji Subhash Place metro station.
Security guards saw smoke saw smoke coming out from a ventilation panel on the tenth floor of the building and raised an alarm. People posted images of billowing clouds of smoke on social media.
The fire department said they received the call for the fire around 4:25 pm and dispatched 22 vehicles to bring the fire under control.
The fire broke out on the top floor of the building.
By around 7:30 pm officials said they had completely doused the fire. "The situation is under control. There are no casualties," a fire officer Rajesh Pawar told news agency ANI.
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Being a Sunday, the office was closed with just few people who managed to exit the building safely.
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The building is close to the Netaji Subhash Place metro station.
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