One Student Injured While Escaping Fire at Presidency University

Four fire tenders were pressed into service with students, teachers being evacuated from the century-old building.

Presidency College, Kolkata (Photo Courtesy: Wikimedia Commons/Altered by The Quint)

• One student was injured while trying to escape a fire which broke out inside the server room of Presidency University library in the city on Friday, police said.
  
• Thick black smoke engulfed the entire College Street campus of the University after fire broke out at around 1:30 pm inside the server room of the library, probably due to an electrical botch-up in the air conditioning machine, a senior police officer said.
  
• A student suffered minor injuries when he, along with others, fell down while trying to flee fearing the blaze was a massive fire, the officer said.
  
• Five fire tenders were pressed into service and students as well as teachers were evacuated from the century-old building, he said.
  
• In October 2010 a major fire had broken out at the Baker building of the university that houses the chemistry department where chemicals and gas cylinders were stored.