Chennai fire scare: Blaze engulfs BSNL office on Anna Salai; services disrupted

CHENNAI: A occurrence broke retired astatine the BSNL bureau connected Anna Salai connected Saturday morning, triggering panic successful the engaged commercialized stretch. No injuries oregon entrapments were reported arsenic the incidental occurred connected a vacation erstwhile the bureau was closed.According to officials, the occurrence was noticed astir 9.30 americium aft a information defender spotted heavy fume billowing from the 2nd level of the building. Fire and rescue services rushed to the spot and battled the blaze for implicit an hour. At slightest 5 occurrence tenders and 10 metro h2o tankers were pressed into work to douse the fire.Preliminary inquiries suggest that the occurrence whitethorn person been triggered by an electrical abbreviated circuit.

Police said a artillery kept successful 1 of the rooms connected the 2nd level is suspected to person exploded, which whitethorn person sparked the fire. The flames reportedly dispersed done cablegram lines and extended to the third, fourth, and sixth floors of the building. The nonstop origin of the occurrence volition beryllium confirmed aft a elaborate investigation.As heavy fume engulfed the building, commuters connected Anna Salai slowed down, and respective motorists stopped to grounds videos of the incident, starring to postulation congestion connected the arterial road.

Police unit were deployed to modulate postulation and guarantee nationalist safety.The occurrence caused disruption to captious services housed astatine the BSNL facility. TANGEDCO said its servers maintained astatine the BSNL bureau were affected, resulting successful a impermanent disruption of online outgo services. In addition, backup servers of the 108 ambulance work located astatine the BSNL bureau were besides damaged successful the fire. Officials clarified that the main 108 ambulance power country astatine the DMS Complex successful Teynampet continues to relation normally.Firefighters managed to bring the blaze nether control, and further investigations are underway to measure the grade of harm and find the nonstop origin of the incident.