About half-dozen shops were gutted in a fire that broke out at Bhuiyandih under the Sitaramdera police station area around midnight. The shops, which were gutted in fire, were located close to Subernarekha Burning Ghat. The shops deal in tyres and other repairing job of four wheelers. Materials worth around `5 lakh were gutted.
According to Sitaramdera police, the exact cause of the fire could not be known. But, it was suspected that a bonfire triggered the fire. The investigation is still on.
As the news spread, three fire brigades - one of Tata Steel and the other two belonging to the State Government- reached the spot within 15 minutes. It took about two hours to douse the fire.
Officer-in-charge of Sitaramdera police station Ramji Mahto, who rushed to the spot after getting the information said that timely arrival of the fire brigades prevented the fire from spreading.
“We are investigating as to what led to the fire. Along with the tyre repairing shops, two old vehicles and a generator was also gutted in the fire. The fire was prevented from spreading otherwise, it would have spread to the vehicles parked nearby,” he said.
Notably, this was the second fire accident during the past one week.
On January 13, a similar fire broke out at near Dimna Chowk in Mango in which about a dozen make shift shops were completely gutted. The fire, which was triggered by a bonfire late in the night, took three hours to douse.