Pune BBA student uses lighter in bid to steal petrol from bike, triggers fire; 200 rescued
The Pune fire brigade rescued the people from Shrushti complex around 1am on Monday. No one was injured, Chandannagar police said. There was a religious function on the third floor of the building. Around 200 people were asleep on the third floor when the fire broke out.
Later on Monday, the Chandannagar police arrested the student, a resident of Sanjay Park in Vimannagar, for setting the two-wheelers on fire.
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"The student had gone to Wadgaon Sheri to meet a friend on his scooter.
While returning home, his scooter ran out of fuel. He halted near the commercial building around 12.30am and saw two-wheelers parked at the entrance of the building," said senior inspector Seema Dhakane of the Chandannagar police.
"He decided to steal fuel from one of the parked two-wheelers. Though he managed to open the fuel pipe of one motorcycle and started stealing the petrol, he spilled some of it. As the area did not have lights, the student lit his lighter to see the petrol," Dhakane said.
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"As soon as he ignited the lighter, the petrol caught fire, and the flames reached the fuel tank of the motorcycle. Following this, the flames engulfed all the two-wheelers parked near the motorcycle," he said.
Four fire tenders reached the spot and doused the flames, but some plastic and wooden material kept in the windows of the building caught fire.
Fire station officer Vijay Bhilare said: "Six two-wheelers parked at the entrance of the building were gutted.
Thick, black smoke emanating from the fire spread across the building floors, blocking all entry and exit points. The people stuck in the building made frantic calls for help."
Fire officers Nitin Temgire and Sanjay Jadhav, along with their team members, carried out the rescue operations.
Bhilare told TOI: "The windows of the building started melting because of the intense heat of the fire. We broke the window glass panes and rescued the people using ropes and ladders. Some people were brought down using the staircase."
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