ludhiana a major fire broke out at an auto spare parts shop at subhani building chowk on wednesday morningit was brought under control in two hours as the incident took place in the early morning hours there was lesser traffic on the otherwise busy roadnearby shopkeepers said around 650am we noticed black smoke coming out of the window of bombay spare parts shop we immediately informed its owner as well as the fire brigadesome tried dousing the flames with water buckets firemen said we received a call around 702am fire tenders were rushed to the spot but by the time the blaze had spread to the entire building at ground first and second floors flames were coming out of the front side of the shop the lane is narrow at its rear we started controlling the blaze from both the sides we climbed an adjoining building and broke a wall to douse the flames fire station officer maninder singh said the fire was major as the building was old it developed cracks at least 10 fire tenders were pressed into service its cause is not clear as the owner told us that he had closed the shop on tuesday night and all was fine at the time cause can be ascertained after verification there was a huge stock of flammable materialfrom subhani building chowk to brown road all the shops are of twowheelers spare parts and vehicle servicing is also done there these shops are constructed close to each other and keep huge stock without following any safety measures if the fire had spread to the adjoining shops the situation could have been worseover 350 fire incidents have been reported this year till now