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Over 19 hours aft a large fire broke retired astatine a furnishings store successful Nampally, firefighters continued operations connected Sunday (January 25, 2026), arsenic flames and fume persisted successful the building’s cellar, wherever 5 radical are feared trapped.
Fire officials said the biggest situation remains accessing the two-level cellar, dispersed crossed the -1 and -2 floors, which is packed with stored goods and has constricted introduction points. Thick fume continues to flight from beneath ground, indicating that pockets of occurrence are inactive active.
“There are lone 2 entree points to the cellar - 1 staircase wrong the shop, which had already been blocked by the owners, and a constrictive ramp from the outside,” said Hyderabad Fire Officer-II Ajmeera Sreedas. He added that store owners and workers were utilizing the ramp to determination and store worldly wrong the cellar. “When the occurrence broke out, the worldly stored adjacent the ramp caught fire, collapsed and wholly blocked the entry,” helium said.
According to the official, aft the occurrence started, 2 radical allegedly rushed into the cellar done the ramp successful an effort to rescue 3 others who were believed to beryllium stuck inside. However, earlier they could exit, burning worldly fell and sealed the constrictive passage, trapping each 5 wrong the cellar area. The authoritative added that recognition of the bodies, if recovered, volition beryllium highly challenging, fixed the strength and duration of the fire.
To summation entree to the basement, earthmovers person been pressed into work to excavate ample holes on the outer walls of the basement. Concrete slabs and debris person been pulled isolated to make ventilation points, from wherever dense fume continues to determination out. Simultaneously, firefighters are besides dismantling the beforehand information of the shop, cutting done structural sections to unfastened up an alternate entree way to the cellar and let vigor and fume to escape.
Officials said the occurrence has been peculiarly hard to power owed to the quality of the materials stored successful the basement. The cellar was being utilized arsenic a godown and contained ample quantities of furniture, mattresses and different highly inflammable items, which intensified the blaze and prolonged firefighting efforts.
According to an authoritative from the occurrence power room, a full of 17 firefighting vehicles person been deployed truthful far, including a bronto skylift and a firefighting robot. More than 70 firefighters, including 10 to 15 elder officials, person been moving successful rotation arsenic the cognition entered its 2nd day, focusing connected cooling, debris removal and attempts to safely scope the cellar.
Experts from Nagpur, who had earlier analysed the Gulzar Houz occurrence adjacent Charminar claimed the lives of 17 members of a azygous family, on with engineering experts from JNTU, are expected to sojourn the tract to measure the concern and probe the origin of the fire.
Firefighting and rescue operations are expected to proceed done the day.
