Surat: Massive fire in Orchid tower, brigade call declared

Surat, 29 May, 2014

Fire broke out in Surat’s Orchid building in Sahara Darwaja area on Thursday morning. The scale of fire was massive. According to initial reports it started from top floor and spread further to other floors. Fire brigade has declared brigade call following the scale of fire. Hundreds of people are gathered around the building causing traffic jam. Surat’s Mayor, Municipal Commissioner, local MLA rushed to the place of incident. The building is commercial type and lot of textile material is stocked inside. According to Fire brigade, it’s not possible to control this fire quickly and it’s clear that most part of the building will get destroyed. Due to morning time there’s no danger to life. This is another incident of fire in textile market in recent time in Surat. In earlier incident when another commercial tower caught fire recently, local administration had filed complaint against builder and he was arrested.