lucknow property worth lakhs was gutted in a fire that broke out on the ground floor of a twostoried commercial complex on nawal kishore road on monday leading to panic in the area the building houses three offices of private companies including a realestate firm on the ground floor where fire broke out at around 9am a security guard alerted the fire safety department and two fire tenders were rushed to the spot fire station officer hazratganj ram kumar rawat said primary investigation revealed that a shortcircuit caused the fire it took 45 minutes to douse flames but by that time entire furniture computers and other belongings in the office were gutted locals said a major tragedy could have occurred had the fire taken place during working hours as the building was in a congested area located adjacent to the street having several coaching institutes a fire had broken out in one of the institutes in the area on september 6 later two buildings were sealed after occupants failed to produce fire safety compliance certificates chief fire officer pk yadav said a probe will be done to ascertain whether the building where the incident took place on monday had all fire safety norms at place