AHMEDABAD: Over 500 children were rescued after a massive fire broke out in a multi-storey school building in Gujarat’s Vadodara city on Friday. An official gave this information.
The fire broke out at Phoenix School in Makarpura area of the city in the morning when students of secondary and higher secondary were in their classes, said Jaideep Gadhvi, deputy fire officer of Makarpura fire station.
Gadhvi, who reached the spot with his men around 9.30 am, said the school was ground plus four storeys and had four air-conditioned classrooms on each floor.
“We quickly realized that the fire was caused by a short circuit in the MCB switchboard on the third floor. Though the fire was minor, thick smoke had covered the entire third floor. The students of the first and second floors managed to come out on time , while the students managed to get out. The third and fourth floors were jammed as the visibility was zero.”
Using breathing apparatus sets, two firefighters entered the building and doused the fire on the third floor and then opened the windows to clear the smoke, he said.
Gadhvi said, “After the smoke cleared, we evacuated more than 500 children from the main and emergency exits of the building using ladders. Only one student suffered a minor knee injury during the entire operation.”
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