Pimpri-Chinchwad VIDEOS: Fire Engulfs Furniture Shop, Spreads To Apartment Building; 3 Women Rescued | Video Screengrabs
A fire engulfed a furniture shop and quickly spread to an adjacent residential building from where three women were evacuated in Pimpri-Chinchwad township in Pune district on Wednesday, Fire Brigade officials said.
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Eight to ten fire tenders were deployed to douse the flames, they said.
The blaze, whose cause was not yet known, engulfed the furniture shop and then spread to a nearby residential building, necessitating a rescue operation, an official said.
“We rescued three women from the second floor of the residential building and rushed them to a civic-run hospital,” he informed.
The fire was doused and cooling operation was underway to prevent any flare-ups, the official added.
