A massive fire broke out at the Gubba Cold Storage facility in Annaram village, Jinnaram mandal, Sangareddy district on Wednesday (August 6, 2025). The fire which started at 8.02 p.m. caused multiple explosions that continued until around 3.00 a.m. the next day, officers from the state fire department said.
No casualties or injuries were reported.
The incident comes after about a month since a massive blast tore through Sigachi Industries, located about 38 kilometres away in Sangareddy’s Pashamylaram on July 1, killing 45 individuals.
According to fire department officials, the facility uses Emerson Standard Refrigeration Equipment, has six cold storage chambers, each 12 metres high and holding 600 pallets.
“It stores a range of pharmaceutical ingredients and chemicals belonging to different clients. Among the chemicals present at the time of the incident were sodium ethoxide, sodium iodide, potassium tert-butoxide, vitamin A acetate in gelatine, cyclopentyl methyl ether, isopropyl ether, calcium acetate, bupropion hydrochloride, sucroferric oxyhydroxide, (bromomethyl) benzoate, epichlorohydrin, N-(S)-glycidyl phthalimide, cyclohexane, piperazine, N-bromo succinimide and tartaric acid,” informed an officer.
