Around 700 shanties have been gutted, leaving round 1,000 individuals with no roof over their head, in a hearth that broke out in a slum cluster in Gurgaon’s Nathupur village late Friday night time. No accidents or casualties have been reported, stated officers.
Officials from the hearth division stated they have been alerted to the incident at 2.08 am, and two fireplace tenders from the Sector 29 fireplace station have been rushed to the spot. When the blaze was discovered to be too robust, further tenders have been despatched from the hearth stations at Sector 37, Bhim Nagar, and Udyog Vihar. A complete of 15 fireplace tenders have been used within the operation, stated officers.
“Our personnel managed to control the blaze by 6 am, and the fire was extinguished around 8 am. Nobody has been injured and there have been no casualties, as per our information, but around 700 shanties were gutted in the blaze according to the assessment of our staff,” stated I S Kashyap, assistant divisional fireplace security officer.
He stated one other 500-600 shanties within the space have been saved due to the efforts of the hearth division. Officials say the hearth was doubtless attributable to a brief circuit, and intensified as small LPG cylinders belonging to residents burst.
“These are all temporary shanties and clusters — they have electricity but there aren’t any meters or other fittings so the wiring is all loose. At 2 am, then, the most likely reason for such a fire is a short circuit in the wiring,” stated Kashyap.
Most of the individuals who have been residing within the shanties are migrants working as every day wage labourers at building websites.
While the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) goes concerning the activity of levelling the bottom the place their properties as soon as stood, these rendered homeless are being housed in non permanent shelters in Nathupur village, created utilizing canvas by aid employees and NGOs.
Rohtash, who hails from Uttar Pradesh and walks to Sikanderpur’s Labour Chowk on the lookout for work every morning, stated, “My wife and I were sleeping in our home when some neighbours woke us up and alerted us about the fire. We are grateful that we survived the incident and managed to get out in time, but the economic loss we have suffered because of it will be very difficult for us to cope with.”
“I managed to grab our cash and documents as we fled, but everything else is gone. We will have to start from scratch again, at a time where anyway there is no work for us. I don’t know how we will manage,” he stated.