Incidences of fire kept the fire officials of city on tenterhooks during Diwali night. Three major incidences and scores of small fires were reported from different parts of the city.
The office of Congress leader and position holder Sushil Rathi loacated on Chakrata road was gutted in a major fire caused by fire crackers on Diwali. It is learnt that goods worth lakhs were destroyed in the fire.
The Chief Fire Officer (CFO) of Dehradun Surendra Kumar Sharma told The Pioneer that incident of fire in Goldy market on Chakrata road was reported at 8 pm on which fire tenders rushed to the spot. The fire soon engulfed three go-downs and office of congress leader Rathi. Sharma claimed that the fire was prevented from spreading and was brought under control soon. He said that some shops located near Bindal Bridge caught fire at around 2.30 am on Thursday. In the fire a shop selling shoes was gutted completely.
The CFO said that another major fire incident was reported on Thursday morning when a go-down located in Akhara Mohalla at Band Bazar caught fire. He said that the six fire tenders were pressed into service to put the fire in control. The fire officer informed that more than a dozen minor cases of fire were also reported in the day.
The fire department had deployed fire tenders at prominent places like Saharanpur Chowk, Clock Tower, Prem Nagar, Dila Ram Market, Raipur and Dharampur to meet any eventuality on the day of Diwali. All these fire tenders kept moving from one place to another on the reports of fire.