According to officials from the police and emergency services, a massive fire broke out in a factory inside the Export Processing Zone in Karachi’s Landhi Industrial Area Extension on Thursday.
Rescue 1122 spokesperson Hassaan Khan told Dawn.com that firefighters used their best efforts to extinguish the fire after it started at the Sungrazer business and spread quickly.
He described it as an industrial facility that manufactured plastic and claimed that five fire trucks, two water bowsers, and one ambulance were working to keep it under control.
Even though the fire was stopped from spreading, the dense smoke from the flames continued to rise until nightfall.
Khan stated that although the precise source of the fire was unknown, it was thought to have been caused by a short circuit.
He went on to say that no injuries were reported because no one was in the factory when the fire started.
But according to him, the factory’s basic materials were totally destroyed.
“It will take some more time to control the fire because there are combustible materials like cardboard, thread rolls, and plastic [inside the factory],” he said.
According to a police statement, Deputy Commissioner Saleem Ullah Oduho and Malir Senior Superintendent of Police Kashif Abbasi visited the scene and gave the plant management instructions to further enhance safety procedures.
According to Abbasi, it was under control by the firemen, and no one was hurt.
Because there are insufficient fire safety precautions in structures, fire occurrences are frequent in the city.
In February, a massive fire broke out in a commercial building in Clifton, destroying thirty establishments.
Twelve fire tenders spent four hours putting out the fire, and four people—including one firefighter—were harmed by smoke inhalation.
The Sindh High Court was notified by the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) last year that it had carried out a fire safety assessment of more than 265 commercial buildings and that none of them had a fire safety certificate or a no-objection certificate (NOC) issued by the fire department.
According to the KMC study, approximately 155 of the 265 buildings lacked smoke and fire detectors, while the status of nine of these buildings was unknown.
In a similar vein, more than 155 buildings’ electrical and wiring systems were deemed to be in inadequate condition. According to the assessment, almost 200 structures lacked or had inadequate firefighting apparatus that was accessible.
In order to verify that safety regulations are being followed, the SHC had instructed provincial officials to make sure that appropriate teams inspected every mall in the city.
The bench voiced displeasure about a number of fire-related occurrences that have recently happened at the city’s shopping and commercial malls and structures.
In a case involving a 2023 fire at a shopping center on Rashid Minhas Road, the court issued similar orders. A suspected short circuit caused a fire to break out inside the RJ Shopping Mall, killing at least 11 people and injuring five more.
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