LAGATAR24 NETWORK
Ranchi, March 6: Plastic pipes worth lakhs pf rupees were reduced to ash as a fire broke out in the under construction Urban Haat campus near Kanke Dam under the Gonda police station area.
Eight fire tenders doused the fire after an hour-long effort. The reason behind the fire could not be ascertained so far.
The incident took place hardly 32 days after the Jharkhand High Court directed for a fire safety audit across the state.
A division bench comprising chief justice Apresh Kumar Singh and Justice Deepak Roshan had given direction while taking suo moto cognizance in the matter of fire at Dhanbad which charred 14 to death on January 31 night.
This is not an isolated incident of fire in Jharkhand.
In Hazaribagh two below 5 year children, Sakshi and Avinash Kumar, playing in hey dump in Checkapi village under Barkatha block died after fire broke out in the dump. The incident took place on January 30.
In Chaibasa, Amir Hussain and his four-yr-old daughter were charred to death after fire broke out in a morgue of SAIL’s Kiriburu-Meghahatuburu General Hospital. The incident took place on the same day.
Prior to this, on January 19, a 19-yr-old youth was charred to death while another sustained severe burn injuries after fire broke out in the outhouse of Krishna Apartment situated under Bariatu police station area.
On January 2, fire broke out in Usha Martin industrial campus in Tatisilwai due to a short circuit. The company must have incurred a loss of Rs one crore in the incident.
Prior to this, on December 29 a fierce fire broke out in Lalpur police station premises in the heart of Jharkhand capital.
Two incidents of fire took place in the months of January at GEL Church Complex.
Last year on March 22, important documents charred as fire broke out on the fifth floor of the Main branch of State Bank of India at Kutchery under Kotwali police station.
In the intervening night of January 31 and February 1, a shop at Vidyanagar under Sukhdeonagar police station gutted.
