Fire broke out at NTPC Talcher Kaniha, no injuries found

Odisha: A fire broke out at NTPC's Kaniha plant in Odisha's Angul district on Saturday, according to fire service officials. The plant in the Talcher area of the district experienced a fire at 8:10 am in the conveyor belt transporting coal. There was no report of any injury in the fire, they said.

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The NTPC in a statement said that the fire call was quickly responded to by the CISF fire wing and plant disaster team. "No person has received any injury apart from minor first aid to one CISF personnel during fire fighting," the NTPC statement said.

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The cause of the fire and damage will be soon assessed, an NTPC official said, adding that necessary repair work will be started soon.
The NTPC appreciated timely help from all quarters of the state and district like the police and fire department.

As a precautionary measure Unit -3 of 500MW was taken under shutdown for a brief time to contain the fire. Rest all other units are recorded to be normal.

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