KARACHI: A huge fire that broke out in a garments factory in the SITE area on Sunday morning could not be brought under control till late in the evening by over a dozen fire engines as firemen faced immense hardships in reaching the place where the blaze had erupted due to lack of proper access and filling of smoke in the building, officials said. No one was hurt in the incident.

At 10pm, fire brigade official said: “Still, 11 fire engines are trying to control the fire but so far, we have not received any information that the fire has been controlled”.

KMC’s fire brigade official said that they received information about the fire inside the textile mill at around 9:54am on Sunday.

Initially, a few fire engines were sent to control the fire but after realising gravity of the situation, fire engines were called from across the metropolis while Pakistan Navy’s fire engines also joined in.

“As many as 12 fire tenders of the KMC, around 25 water bowsers of the KWSB, apart from the Navy fire tenders, continued their efforts for several hours but the fire could not be brought under control,” said a fireman.

He added that the warehouse, located on the first floor of the two-storey building was huge, was almost full of rejected clothes, which were kept in a haphazard manner.

Published in Dawn, July 15th, 2019