Six firefighters were injured as the fire brigade attempted to douse a blaze that erupted in a foam-manufacturing factory in Karachi's SITE Area on Thursday morning.
According to residents of the area, the fire initially broke out at 8am. The fire brigade had completely doused it before it erupted again later in the day. The inferno razed parts of the building to the ground, as ten fire tenders, a snorkel, and a water bowser remained engaged in efforts to douse it.
In May, a one-year-old was burnt to death after a fire sparked in an unregulated settlement in Karachi's Gulshan-e-Iqbal vicinity.
Six fire trucks were able to contain the fire which was set due to a cylinder explosion, however, the blaze left affected more than 200 shacks near a railway track in Block 13C of Gulshan-e-Iqbal.
Earlier this year in April, a blaze had raged in the property room of the City Courts Complex for approximately four hours. It was contained after fire brigade vehicles from all around the city were called on an emergency basis.
Multiple explosions had also been heard in the court's evidence room, which usually houses items — including explosives — recovered from arrested suspects, as the fire had spread outwards, prompting a call to the bomb disposal squad.
