Fire in collector’s office in Vadodara, rest-room damaged

Vadodara: A fire today broke out in the collector office here in which the rest room (the retiring chamber adjoining the main collector office) was badly damaged, Chief Officer ((Fire & Emergency Services) of the VMC, Dipak P Gunjal said.

However there was no casualty in the incident and the new woman collector of Vadodara Ms P Bharti, who was recently transferred from Panchmahal and had joined yesterday, was not in her office as she had gone to capital Gandhinagar for an official meeting.

The fire broke out in the 10 X 8 ft dimension rest room owing to short circuit in its AC. ‘The incident was reported at around 1135 am and the fire was completely controlled by 1245 pm,’ Gujnal said adding that the wiring, AC, a fridge kept near-by in the rest room, some papers, fan, furniture and wiring were damaged owing to the fire,’ he said.

The rest-room attached with main collector’s office is situated on the ground floor of the two storied building situated in plush Raopura area of the city.

Three fire fighter vehicles were involved in dousing the fire.

DeshGujarat