India, May 19 -- A massive fire broke out at a tyre factory in the Jalandhar industrial focal point area on Monday morning.

No loss of life was reported but the scale of the blaze could be gauged from the fact that it took fire brigade personnel more than five hours to control the situation.

Police said the fire was sparked off by a short circuit in the factory that also stored rubber raw material in the Gadaipur area of Jalandhar. The fire department received information about the incident at 4.25am.

"On receiving the information, 30 fire tenders were rushed to the spot from five fire stations," an official of Jalandhar fire services department said.

Rubber goods worth lakhs were gutted in the incident.

The adjoining factory was als...