Furniture godown gutted in fire goods worth lakh gutted

Yogesh K Porwar & Siddarath Sethia

A furniture godown situated on Chuchaghatta main road in Puttenahalli was gutted due to accidental fire due to suspected electrical short circuit in the early hours of Saturday.

Passers-by noticed thick smoke coming out of the shop which was shut down and alerted the fire and emergency service control room.

Two fire tenders rushed to the spot put out the fire. though no one injured,goods and furniture worth lakhs gutted in the fire.

The fire officials and team of electrical inspectorate are probing to ascertain the reason behind the accident.