As the mercury rises in the city, fires in wooded areas are becoming more commonplace. Fires broke out in the forest area of Jnanabharathi campus on Saturday and Sunday, even as a massive fire broke out in the open land of Container Corporation of India Limited (CONCOR) covered with bushes and tall grass in Kadugodi on Sunday. This comes days after the city recorded 36.4 Degrees Celsius, the highest temperature for March in the last five years.
The massive fire that broke out in the dumping yard of CONCOR, surrounded by several apartment complexes, triggered panic in the area as thick smoke engulfed the area pushing apartment residents to come out in the open. Five fire tenders rushed to the spot and brought the fire under control after hours of operation. No damage to life or property was reported.
Similarly, fires were reported in different parts of the wooded areas of the over 1,200-acre Jnanabharathi campus of Bangalore University on Saturday afternoon and again on Sunday morning. Two fire tenders rushed to the spot and put out the fire and camped at the spot to ensure the blaze did not spread to other areas in the vast campus.
