{"id":104703,"date":"2026-02-09T16:33:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/firefighting-efforts-under-way-to-douse-blaze-at-factory-in-rawalpindis-rawat\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T16:33:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:33:45","slug":"firefighting-efforts-under-way-to-douse-blaze-at-factory-in-rawalpindis-rawat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/firefighting-efforts-under-way-to-douse-blaze-at-factory-in-rawalpindis-rawat\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighting efforts under way to douse blaze at factory in Rawalpindi\u2019s Rawat"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RAWALPINDI: Rescue personnel were engaged in efforts to douse a large fire that engulfed a factory in Rawat Industrial Estate on Monday, according to officials.<\/p>\n

According to Rescue 1122, the fire at the textile factory broke out at around 4:30pm and efforts to extinguish are still under way.<\/p>\n

Factory owner M. Usman informed the police at around 15:45pm that a fire had erupted in his factory.<\/p>\n

Dense plumes of smoke could be seen above the industrial area from miles away after the fire broke out.<\/p>\n

An initial statement by Rescue 1122 said 13 fire tenders and more than 45 rescue personnel were participating in the operation. According to latest updates by Rescue 1122, a snorkel is also being employed in the operation while fire tenders and the help of firefighters had been sought from nearby districts as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fire has been stopped from spreading further,\u201d the Rescue 1122 statement said.<\/p>\n

A Rescue 1122 spokesperson earlier told Dawn<\/em> that assistance had also been sought from fire and rescue services of Bahria, Islamabad and Water and Sanitation Agency, Rawalpindi. He said that the blaze had initially been described as a second degree fire.<\/p>\n

At around 8pm, a rescue official had told Dawn<\/em> that there were no reports of any person getting injured or trapped inside the building until then.<\/p>\n

An eye witness, Yasir, who did not give his last name, told Dawn<\/em> that the fire was so intense that the firefighters were struggling to control it even after three hours.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can hear the sound of loud explosions from inside the factory,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The cause of the fire could not be immediately ascertained.<\/p>\n

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All high-rise buildings in the garrison city have been served notices to adopt fire safety measures within 30 days, it emerged earlier this month.<\/p>\n

A meeting held at the deputy commissioner\u2019s office, chaired by Additional Deputy Commissioner General Dr Hasaan Tarriq, was informed that there are 163 high-rise buildings in the district.<\/p>\n

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These include those under the cantonment boards. Of these, two buildings fall under Grade A, three under Grade B, six under Grade C and 152 under Grade D.<\/p>\n

On January 31, two persons were safely evacuated<\/a> after a fire erupted in a residential building in Phase-7 of Bahria Town in Rawalpindi.<\/p>\n

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More to follow<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RAWALPINDI: Rescue personnel were engaged in efforts to douse a large fire that engulfed a factory in Rawat Industrial Estate on Monday, according to officials. According to Rescue 1122, the fire at the textile factory broke out at around 4:30pm and efforts to extinguish are still under way. Factory owner M. Usman informed the police […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2026\/02\/09190016044f78e.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}