Except a few minor fire incidents, Diwali festival went off peacefully in the State capital. In connection with fire incidents, the department of Fire Service in Dehradun received as many as 13 calls on November 3.
With the deployment of fire tenders at incident site on time, all fires were put off before they could assume alarming proportions, said Dehradun Senior Superintendent of Police Kewal Khurana on Monday. Khurana said that police had made elaborate security arrangements to prevent untoward incidents on Diwali.
As per the report from the department of fire service, a total of 13 calls related to fire incidents were reported on Sunday in the district.
Fires reported on Diwali included two fire calls from IT Park area, one fire call each from Mansinghwala, near DBS (PG) College, Universal petrol pump near Dhara Chowki; Cross Road, EC Road, Paltan Bazaar, Old Nehru Colony, Municipal Road, Senior Citizen Camp, Rajpur Road, MDDA colony, lakshman Chowk and Saharanpur Chowk.
With possibility of fire on the occasion of Diwali festival, fire officers were directed to station fire tenders at important places. Apart from this two mini water tenders were deployed at two important places to provide two backpack sets that can be taken inside narrow lanes. In these fire incidents, no loss of life was reported from any part of the district.
He said that preventive measures were taken including deployment of additional forces at sensitive places including ISBT, Railway Station and crowded places including Paltan Bazaar on Diwali.