Kamala, an activist, ran helter-skelter minutes after she walked out of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike’s (BBMP) records room as she heard loud cries from the Quality Control and Laboratory office where a fire broke out on Friday (Aug. 11) afternoon.
As soon as she gathered a sense of what was happening inside, Ms. Kamala shouted, “Help! Save the people inside.” A large number of people gathered outside, and the Fire Department was called. The people inside, including the Chief Engineer (CE), started to walk out unsteadily in pain. About nine employees of the Quality Control Wing suffered burns and are currently being treated at the hospital.
Ms. Kamala said she had visited the records room located next to the room which was gutted to read some files, and after completing her work, she was walking towards the main gate of the BBMP. The fire had started when she walked past the quality control office, and she was shocked to hear the cries of the staff inside. Fire personnel successfully contained the fire between 4.30 p.m. and 4.45 p.m. Otherwise, it may have engulfed the next room, burning all the files.
