Firefighters douse the flames on a vehicle which caught on fire as a house in Duncan Basti, Dimapur was razed on April 28.
124 Houses gutted in total, claims 1 life
DIMAPUR, APRIL 29 (MExN): A fire at Burma Camp, Dimapur claimed one life and gutted over a hundred houses on the intervening night of April 28-29. According to the Fire & Emergency Services (F&ES), a total of 123 bamboo houses were razed in the inferno, while a 25 year-old man succumbed to the fire.
A press release from the F&ES said that the Fire Station (Central) responded to the incident as soon as it received information over phone at around 12:10 am.
Fire-fighters from Fire Station (West) also responded. It took about 3 hours to douse the flames. Property, estimated to worth around Rs 50 lakh was lost. “Due to intervention of firefighters, the fire was controlled and prevented from spreading further,” the release said, and as a result, property estimated to be worth around Rs 80 lakh could be saved from the fire.
It said that the cause of the fire could not be ascertained.
Earlier, on April 28, one house was razed at Duncan Basti in a fire suspected to have erupted from the kitchen “due to drying of meat.” The release said that firefighters from Fire Station (West) were pressed into service. One bamboo structure, alongwith a Maruti Gypsy was destroyed by the fire. The damage was estimated to be around Rs 4 lakh, while it added that the prompt response of the fire personnel prevented the fire from spreading to the surrounding households and saving property worth around Rs 70 lakh.
