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Kolkata: SSKM fire brought under control
Kolkata, Nov 21 (IBNS): The fire, which broke out at government-owned Seth Sukhlal Karnani Memorial (SSKM) Hospital in Kolkata on Monday morning, has been brought under control, reports said.
According to reports, the fire was first seen at around 10:45 am. at a library on the sixth floor of SSKM's Ronald Ross building.
As many as 15 fire tenders with hydraulic ladder rushed to the spot.
Disaster Management Group personnel and Kolkata Police personnel also rushed to the spot.
Firemen fought for nearly an hour to bring the blaze under control.
Patients from the affected block were evacuated promptly. No casualty was reported immediately.
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, Kolkata's Mayor and the state's Fire Minister Sovan Chatterjee, cabinet minister Firhad Hakim and Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar visited the scene later.
Mamata Banerjee said that a fire station will be built at the SSKM hospital compound, where two fire engines will be ready always, for immediate response in such cases.
"I am looking into the incident to confirm if it was an accident or somebody started the blaze ," Banerjee told the media at SSKM.
The fire department has started a probe into the matter to know the exact reason behind the fire.
However, the library, which was the centre of the fire, has been gutted completely.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha. Images by Souvik Das)
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