Collector orders fire safety audit of buildings in old market areas in Coimbatore before Deepavali

Coimbatore District Collector Pavankumar G. Giriyappanavar instructed the District Fire Officer (DFO) to behaviour a occurrence information audit of buildings successful the engaged marketplace places successful the city, particularly those successful and astir Town Hall and Ukkadam, successful the aftermath of fire astatine a commercialized analyzable connected Big Bazaar Street connected Sunday (September 28, 2025).

Mr. Giriyappanavar, who inspected the firefighting connected Big Bazaar Street building, held a treatment with DFO P. Pulukandi and Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation Commissioner M. Sivaguru Prabakaran connected the audit plan. The Collector instructed the officials to implicit the audit earlier Deepavali.

Mr. Giriyappanavar told The Hindu DFO and his squad person been asked to behaviour meetings with store owners and instruct them to travel occurrence information measures. They volition besides inspect shops. 

“As the festival play is approaching, traders are apt to clasp much stocks. Instead of keeping each the stocks successful the shops, they tin store them successful facilities distant from these congested areas and bring them to shops connected request basis,” helium said.  

The audit is expected to screen aged and continuous buildings astatine engaged marketplace places specified arsenic Big Bazaar Street, Oppanakara Street, Raja Street, Variety Hall Road and Sukrawarpet, among others.

In bid to extinguish the occurrence that broke retired astatine a warehouse made of tin sheets connected the terrace of a three-storeyed commercialized analyzable connected Sunday, the roadworthy had to beryllium closed temporarily owed to deficiency of abstraction astir the gathering for firefighting vehicles. A immense conveyance mounted with an aerial ladder level besides had to beryllium parked connected the road.  

Fire and Rescue Services officials accidental that the bulk of these aged buildings deficiency setback areas astir them for occurrence information purposes. As the spread betwixt 2 buildings is either constrictive oregon nil successful the lawsuit of galore buildings, determination is nary abstraction to parkland firefighting vehicles.

Mr. Prabakaran said the Corporation would inspect buildings to cheque violations successful the signifier of amerciable hold of buildings, unapproved constructions connected terraces and misuse of basement parking spaces arsenic storerooms oregon for different purposes.