No investigation into park fire

Hyderabad: “We also trained the forest staff to extinguish fires using manual fire fighting techniques. We had a water tanker ready with us. All this helped us control the fire soon,” Ms Priya said.

The forest range officer said that around two years back too there was a man-made forest fire in the park.

Shockingy, no investigation has been taken up so far either by the police or the fire department into Thursday’s fire incident.

Leakage in gas pipeline
A major mishap was averted on Thursday when a Bhagyanagar Gas pipeline passing through Medchal developed leakage.

The incident happened when a proclain digging for laying water pipelines damaged the gas pipeline. No casualties were reported. The supply was suspended immediately and the situation was brought under control.

On Thursday at around 10.30 am, water grid works were going on at Medchal and a proclaim, trucks and nearly 10 men were engaged in works.

While digging the ground, the proclain dug deep into the ground damaging the underground gas pipeline. Fearing fire, the workers informed authorities of Bhagya-nagar Gas.

The gas supply was stopped immediately and service personnel rushed to the spot and started repairs.

“There was no fire. The pipeline was damaged during water grid works and is being repaired,” said Medchal inspector S. Rajashekar Reddy. No complaint was lodged with the police.

Fire damages provision store
A major fire broke out in a provision store in Krishna Nagar on Thursday. Fire tenders put out the fire. Owners claimed that property worth around '10 lakh was destroyed.

Fire officials said the fire occurred at the Sri Santoshi Matha Kirana store located in a G+2 building near Kotla Vijaybhaskar Reddy Indoor Stadium. On Thursday at around 9 am, owner Satish opened and cleaned the store.

After that he closed the shop and went home. While leaving, he forgot to switch off lights inside the store. Around 10.15 am, neighbours saw smoke coming out from the store and alerted the fire service.

The fire soon spread across the store. “A short circuit may have caused the fire. They claim that stocks worth around '10 lakh was destroyed in the fire,” said Jubilee Hills fire officer Mohan Reddy.

Nearly eight loads of water was used to put out the fire. “Since the shop was located in a small lane we had to drill holes in the walls to pump in the water,” he added.