Gurugram: In a stunning fireplace accident, about 700 huts have been gutted in an enormous blaze that broke out in Gurugram’s Nathupur village. The reason behind the fireplace, which erupted is suspected to be {an electrical} short-circuit.
Fire division personnel evacuated residents from the huts, it took about 5 hours for the fireplace to come back below management.
No casualties or accidents have been reported whereas the five hundred huts out of the 700 have been fully gutted.
As per information company IANS, fireplace officers knowledgeable that they acquired a name in regards to the incident at 2.08 am. They suspected that it was attributable to a short-circuit in an unlawful electrical provide, the fireplace within the area then unfold quickly to different huts, and shortly your entire space was engulfed in flames.
A video claimed to be of this incident has surfaced, ABP News couldn’t confirm its authenticity.
I.S. Kashyap, assistant divisional fireplace security officer knowledgeable that round 15 fireplace tenders reached the spot and introduced the state of affairs below management in 5 hours.
Fifteen fire-tenders from the Sector-29 fireplace station, Udyog Vihar fireplace station, Sector-37 fireplace station, Bhim Nagar fireplace station, and from the DLF had rushed to the spot.
“Teams of several fire personnels were deployed in the fire-fighting and evacuation operations. Most probably the incident was caused by an electric short-circuit,” Kashyap informed IANS.
“There was some property loss to residents but no death or injuries were caused. The residents are daily wage labourers working at building construction sites,” he stated.
“Timely rescue operation led by the fire personnels saved hundreds of lives. It is expected that hundreds of people having to live in illegal huts erected by local residents on a 4-5-acre land at Nathupur village for the last several years. These two-storey huts are covered with plastic covers, tarpaulin sheets, wood and bamboo. These materials were another reason for the fire to spread across the area very rapidly,” Kayshap added.
