Textile stock burnt on Church Road
In August 2017, a fire that began around 1 am in a fifty-year-old building on Church Road, Chittoor, spread to the next building and burnt textile stock worth about Rs 4 crore. Firefighters worked for more than twelve hours, and the department noted that the two buildings had no gap between them and only one extinguisher.

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