Fire breaks out in furniture godown

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: Fire engulfed a godown of a furniture-manufacturing unit at Chunchaghatta Main Road in Puttenahalli police station limits during the wee hours of Sunday here.

According to sources from the spot, the fire was noticed inside the building around 3 am but spread quickly around within a few minutes destroying furniture worth lakhs of rupees which had been stored inside the godown.

As soon as the residents alerted the police and the fire department, three fire tenders rushed to the spot along with the cops who doused the fire. Fortunately, no casualties were reported in the incident, sources added.