ghaziabad a major fire broke out in a flat on the 12th floor of vvip addresses housing society in raj nagar extension on wednesday night when the family members were downstairs celebrating diwali furniture worth rs 5 lakh and other household items were completely gutted in the blaze no causality was reportedaround 1130pm on wednesday amarpal singh 45 manager of an automotive applications manufacturing firm and his wife parul chaudhary hr head at a private school in ghaziabad had gone downstairs to meet their friends after locking the house their daughter and son were away at a relatives placeabout 10 minutes later they were alerted by their neighbours about the smoke emanating from their flat they rushed back but could not enter the house as the key got jammed in the lock it took them more than an hour to break open the door using hammers and saws procured from othersin the meantime the fire department was informed and they reached the spot around 1230am singh said it took an hour to douse the fire with the help of hydrants installed in the societythe fire started due to a short circuit two out of the three rooms were completely gutted had the lock not got jammed the loss would have been lesser the total loss amounts to around rs 10 lakh which includes damage to the flat furniture and household items singh saidsingh expressed dissatisfaction over the fire departments job the firemen came late and also did not have proper gear to deal with the situation he claimed however fire officials denied the allegations fire safety officer r k yadav who supervised the operation said the team was at the spot within 1520 minutes of being informed