Fire breaks out at Kattakada fast-track court storeroom

A small fire broke out in a building that houses the fast-track POCSO court at Kattakada on Monday night.

The Fire and Rescue Station at Kattakada got information just after 9 p.m. about a fire in a three-storey building, on the second floor of which functioned the fast-track POCSO court. The third floor was used as a storeroom.

It was in one of the two rooms on the third floor that the fire broke out.

The Fire and Rescue Services had to break open a shutter to gain entry to this floor. A narrow corridor then led to the room where a lot of paperwork and material evidence from crimes was stored. The files and documents were slowly catching fire, but it was smoke that posed the bigger problem. Two firefighters had to don breathing apparatus to enter the room that had very little ventilation. They used water to douse the fire. The court had wound up for the day at 5 p.m. No signs of short-circuit could be seen, the Fire and Rescue Services said.

The police and the POCSO court judge also reached the location.