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| Fire rages at Patratu Power Station, property worth 60 crore damaged | | |
Ranchi, Aug 11 Massive fire that engulfed 350 MW Patratu Thermal Power Station last night, today gutted two major units stopping total production even as thick smoke billowed from burnt cables suffocating several people besides destroying property worth about Rs 60 crore.
However, no casualty was reported from the site, about 40 km from here. Fifteen people, including the PTPS General Manager P M Singh, fell unconscious due to suffocation.
Later, talking to UNI over phone, Mr Singh said unit number IX and X were completely destroyed and hoped the fire would be doused by tonight.
Mr Singh said there was no need of inquiry to ascertain the cause of the fire as over-current in the breaker sparked off the devastation.
''If the situation was brought under control, the unit will be able was to generate 40 MW power from tonight,'' he said.
Earlier, a security officer monitoring the fire control operation told UNI over phone that about eight fire tenders had been pressed into service to contain further spread of fire.
''The scene turned worse as thick black smoke continued to billow from the burnt cables making it impossible for the fire tenders to breathe properly,'' he said, adding more fire personnel were being rushed from neighbouring Ranchi, Hazaribagh and Bokaro.
The cause of the fire was stated to be short circuit in the underground cables at unit no IX. The fire which erupted at about 2030 hrs last night later surfaced engulfing the tranformer of the unit. Then it spread to unit number X, the official said.
With fire raging at the major thermal project at Patratu, the capital town suffered power cut last night.
However, 40 MW was managed from Chandil loop line for VIP localities, railways and others.
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