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Tension prevailed connected Big Bazaar Street successful Coimbatore connected Sunday (September 28, 2025) aft a warehouse connected the terrace of a commercialized analyzable caught fire, posing imaginable hazard to adjacent buildings successful the busiest marketplace country successful the city.
Swift enactment by the Fire and Rescue Services, which responded with implicit 60 unit and h2o tenders from aggregate stations, averted a tragedy.
A large occurrence broke retired astatine a commercialized analyzable astatine the engaged Big Bazaar Steet successful #Coimbatore. Fire brigades are engaged successful firefighting. @THChennaipic.twitter.com/Rnk1r2S9xt
— Wilson Thomas (@wilson__thomas) September 28, 2025Fire and Rescue Services officials said that the occurrence broke retired astatine a warehouse made of tin sheets connected the terrace of a three-storeyed complex. Stocks of a shop, namely Simco Nighty House, were stacked wrong the warehouse. The warehouse caught occurrence astir noon, reportedly owed to abbreviated circuit.
Two h2o tenders each from Coimbatore southbound and northbound (Kavundampalayam) occurrence stations, 1 each from Peelamedu, Ganapathy, Kovaipudur and Thondamuthur rushed to the spot aft receiving an alert. A full of 66 unit headed by District Fire Officer P. Pulukandi engaged successful firefighting, until the occurrence was wholly extinguished by 2.30 p.m. An aerial ladder level was utilized to entree the three-storeyed building.
According to the Fire and Rescue Services, the three-storeyed gathering houses aggregate shops, including wholesale trader Simco Nighty House. Stocks specified arsenic acceptable to deterioration dresses and inner-wears of the trader were stocked successful the warehouse. Two unit of the store complained of suffocation aft inhaling the fume arsenic soon arsenic the occurrence broke out. They and different persons successful the gathering managed to travel retired safely.
Fire brigades utilizing an aerial ladder level and h2o tender to extinguish a occurrence reported successful a three-storeyed commercialized analyzable connected Bazaar Road successful Coimbatore connected Sunday. | Photo Credit: PERIASAMY M.
Mr. Pulukandi said nary idiosyncratic suffered burns oregon different wellness complications.
As the warehouse was remaining closed, it was mostly an incomplete pain owed to insufficient oxygen. It was the crushed for thick-dark fume billowing from the warehouse,” said G. Ramachandran, Additional District Fire Officer.
The occurrence was enactment retired earlier spreading to the 3rd level oregon adjacent buildings. A fewer different shops successful adjacent buildings were closed arsenic precaution. The roadworthy was closed during firefighting.
