A fire broke out on the second floor of Dr. Agarwals Eye Hospital on the Officer’s Line, opposite Voorhees College, in Vasanthapuram near Balaji Nagar in the Old Town in Vellore on Friday.
Police said that no casualties have been reported in the accident. The firefighters battled for more than an hour to put out the blaze, which the police said might have been caused by an electric short circuit. “The UPS booster in a separate room in the hospital blasted resulting in the fire of a portion of the building,” said J. Thanigaivel, Station Fire Officer (SFO), Vellore.
Around 9.30 a.m. on Friday, a few staff at the hospital saw smoke emanating from the booster room on the second floor of the building, located near the Vellore City Corporation office, and alerted the local fire office, which rushed fire tenders to the spot.
