Massive fire broke out at agriculture land at Gondarmau damaging crops spread over more than 70 acres in the evening on Saturday. Power supply line over the agriculture land caused the fire which incurred loss of lakhs of rupees to the farmers.
Crops of two farmers were burnt to ashes after a massive fire broke out engulfing standing wheat crop during the day. Fire tenders rushed to the spot and pacified the fire but were not able to save the damaged crops.
Farms of Saudan Singh Rajput of Parsoria village Berasia and Bhura Rajput caught fire and soon spread to more than 70 acres of crop. The fire spread rapidly as the crop was ripe and was scheduled to be harvested.
After the fire broke out, the fire brigade was informed and rescue operation was started but as the distance was large, it took time for the fire tender vehicles to reach the farms which proved costly and crop over more than 70 acres turned to ashes. More than two dozen fire tender vehicles took around two hours to pacify the fire.
SHO, Bairagarh, Jitendra Kumar said that the information of fire was received by the police and team visited the spot. The victims have not provided any details. Police informed the administration about the estimated loss and officials have fixed compensation.
Later, MPSEB said that negligence, on the part of the farmers, led to the incident as they had not connected wires properly.