Major fire at textile shop in Kozhikode city

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Fire and Rescue Services department personnel trying to douse flames astatine  a backstage  textile store  successful  Kozhikode connected  February 17.

Fire and Rescue Services department personnel trying to douse flames astatine a backstage textile store successful Kozhikode connected February 17. | Photo Credit: K. Ragesh

A large occurrence broke retired astatine a textile store successful Kozhikode metropolis connected Tuesday evening (February 17). No casualty has been reported truthful far. This is the 2nd specified incidental astatine Jayalakshmi Silks, wherever a akin incidental had happened connected April 1, 2023, successful which losses worthy crores of rupees were reported.

Fire and Rescue Services department personnel trying to douse flames astatine  a backstage  textile store  successful  Kozhikode connected  February 17.

Fire and Rescue Services department personnel trying to douse flames astatine a backstage textile store successful Kozhikode connected February 17. | Photo Credit: K. Ragesh

The occurrence is reported to person happened astir 6.10 p.m. Without losing time, the Fire and Rescue Service department personnel tried to douse the flames that dispersed from the 2nd level to the 3rd level of the gathering situated connected Kallai Road.

At slightest 5 units were deployed to extinguish the fire. The unit told the media that they archetypal noticed fume coming retired of the godown connected the archetypal floor, and subsequently, each the unit and the shoppers were shifted to safer places. Traffic connected the engaged roadworthy was regulated. Vehicles parked connected the premises were forcibly pushed to adjacent places arsenic burnt-out parts of the gathering kept falling connected the ground.

Published - February 17, 2026 07:44 p.m. IST

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