The Porsa (Morena) vegetable market suddenly caught fire on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday. In this fierce fire 35 shops burnt to ashes, causing an overall loss of Rs15 lakhs.
Fire brigade from Porsa, Ambha and Morena were called. They controlled fire within four hours. In the morning the officers of police and revenue department reached the spot and estimated loss. The Porsa police station in charge Hitendra Singh Rathore said that police reached the spot as soon as it recieved the information. The fire brigades were called from Ambha and Morena. It took them four hours to douse the fire.
According to Rathore goods worth Rs15 lacks kept in the shops was burnt. The officers of revenue department also reached their. They prepared Panchnama of loss of goods. The shopkeepers suffered the loss include Totaram Kushwah, Shayam lal, Ram Niwas Kushawah, Banvari lal Kushawah, Keshav Singh, Mata Prasad Kushawah, Ram Narian Rathore and others.