pune around 500 occupants of a fourstroied building in budhwar peth were evacuated on thursday night after a fire broke out in a cellphone shop on the second floor the building houses a large number of electronics shops on the first and the second floor while there are around 100 residential flats on the third and the fourth floor the occupants of the building alerted the central fire brigade control room after dense black fumes started emanating from the shopkasba peth subfire station officer sunil naiknavare said on friday a short circuit in shop number 25 on the second floor triggered the fire around 1050pm the blaze started spreading and damaging electronic gadgets phone batteries started bursting in the intensity of the heat caused by the firenaiknavare said we rushed to the spot with a fire tender and water tanker and appealed to samarth plaza residents to evacuate the premises the occupants responded to our appeal and rushed to the parking areathe officer said we broke locks of the first floor gate for getting access to the second floor the shop owner came to the spot after getting information about the incident and opened the shutter locks we started the firefighting operation and doused off the flames in 15 minutes we sprayed water for around 90 minutes on neighbouring properties to prevent the fire from spreadinganother fire officer anil karde said the building has large number of shops but its occupants have not taken security measures like installing fire extinguishers and sand buckets on its premises we requested the building authorities to take appropriate safety measures they responded positively to our appeala resident of the building said i woke up after my family members complained of breathing problems as fumes entered our flat as a preventive measure we rushed downstairs we returned to the flat after the fire was extinguished