TEAM HERALD
PORVORIM/BICHOLIM: Household goods and stationery items worth Rs 5 lakh were gutted in separate fire incidents at Nachinola and Bicholim on Thursday.
According to Mapusa Fire station, they received a call at about 12.55 pm stating that fire broke out in the kitchen and store room of the house belonging to Filomena Fernandes at Nachinola. Senior fire station officer D Redkar along with his team and a fire tender rushed to the spot.
Fire personnel further informed that it took them nearly two hours to extinguish the fire. Furniture and other household goods were destroyed in the fire, causing a loss of Rs 2 lakh. When the fire fighters noticed that it was not possible to douse the fire with one fire tender, they requested for two more fire tenders, one each from Panjim and Pilerne.
They could save property worth Rs 5 lakh and the exact cause of fire is not known, informed the fire officials. At Bicholim, a stationery shop was gutted in fire, causing a loss of Rs 3 lakh.
According to information, shop belonging to Ashok Mandrekar was gutted in fire and refrigerator, fan and stationery products were damaged. The fire force officials later cleared the debris. It is suspected that short circuit was the cause of fire.
