The 17th floor of LIC’s Building – Jeevan Sudha caught fire today at 10am today. Thankfully no one was hurt or in the building when the fire broke since today is a holiday.
Ten fire engines were rushed to the spot immediately. According to the guard of an adjacent building, Jeevan Deep, LIC Building’s water sources could not be accessed. So Jeevan Deep gave fire brigade access to its tanks.
The LIC Building stands between the Tata group’s corporate office called Tata Centre and Jeevan Deep.
Behind it is Kolkata’s new landmark, a residential building called The 42. It is still under construction and therefore empty. Smoke from LIC Building engulfed several floors of The 42 intermittently.
The 17th floor of LIC Building housed the server room of State Bank of India’s (SBI) global market office. The chief general manager (Kolkata circle) of SBI, PP Sengupta, said there was no news of anyone getting stuck on the floor. SBI occupies 11th to 19th floor of the 19 storey building.
LIC’s branch offices occupy most of the other floors, along with other financial organisations.
The reason for the fire is still not known but electrical short circuit is suspected.
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