Server room gutted on Ghole Road

The server room of a private securities company on Ghole Road was destroyed in a fire that broke out on Monday morning.

TNN | Sep 24, 2013, 06.31 AM IST

PUNE: The server room of a private securities company on Ghole Road was destroyed in a fire that broke out on Monday morning.

About 100 people were working in the three-storey building of the Nirmal Bang Securities Private Limited at that time. No one was injured.

Pune fire brigade officer Rajesh Jagtap told TOI that prima facie it looks like the fire broke out following short-circuit in the server room which is located on the terrace. Within minutes it engulfed the entire server room. Jagtap said three fire tenders rushed to the spot and doused the fire within half-an-hour.

Anand Godbole, an employee with the company, told TOI that Sagar Kumbhar, who works in the IT section of the office, first smelled something burning in the IT room. "Kumbhar noticed a spark near the air conditioner and alerted other employees," Godbole said.

Godbole and his colleagues rushed to the server with fire extinguishers. "We used four fire extinguishers but the flames spread to the other room. When the electrical wiring too caught fire, we had no option but to evacuate the building," Godbole said.

In the meantime, fire brigade reached the spot and brought the situation under control. Godbole said the building was only three years old and the entire IT set up was new. "We have 175 computers in the office connected through the server. Though the fire has destroyed the server, the data is in intact. The office work has not been affected as we have shifted to our other office in Pune Camp."

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