By IANS,
Chandigarh : A major accident was averted at a petrol pump here Thursday morning when a car caught fire immediately after refuelling. No one was injured in the incident.
The car was completely gutted in the fire that engulfed the vehicle hardly 8-10 feet from the petrol and diesel dispensers of the Sector 39 petrol pump.
The occupants of the car, hailing from Kharar town, 15 km from here, immediately jumped out of the vehicle as they saw flames coming out.
The petrol pump staff seemed at sea initially to put out the fire. The fire-fighting cylinders brought by them could not control the fire. The staff was forced to run with small buckets of water from a tap.
The fire brigade reached after nearly 25 minutes. The car was completely burnt by then.
“We got a call from the petrol pump and a fire brigade was sent. There was not much damage except for the car catching fire,” a fire brigade official said.