Agonda house destroyed in fire, loss pegged at Rs 1 lakh

Agonda house destroyed in fire, loss pegged at Rs 1 lakh
HERALD CORRESPONDENT
CANACONA, JAN 11
Property worth around Rs 1 lakh was destroyed, after a house belonging to a family of fishermen caught fire at Agonda late Monday evening.
According to reports, the house belonging to one Ravi Kushali Pagui partly had roof tiles and dried palm leaves at Dhawalkhazan, Agonda.
It is learnt that fire was noticed late Monday evening blazing over the roof and soon engulfed the entire structure before any one could do anything to douse-off the fire.
However, some locals alerted the fire station, whose personnel rushed to the site and doused-off the fire, but not before the entire structure was burnt down to the ground.
Fire personnel succeeded in retrieving a gas cylinder from beneath the debris, but discovered everything else was reduced to ashes.
According to fire station officials, they were informed about the incident at 6 pm and they responded soon, but the dried palm leaves had aggravated the fire.
Locals informed that fire brigade went short of water while the fire was still on, but managed to douse off the fire before it could spread to other houses with the help of locals.
Fire officials could not throw light as to the cause of fire, while police who are learnt to be investigating the case claimed that they are also clueless as to the cause of fire.
All the occupants, including Ravi, his wife and two children were away from the house, while Ravi’s wife came running from the neighbourhood after hearing shouts from locals around.