Surat: A significant fire in a birthday celebration plot on Surat-Dumas Road brought about massive injury to the valuables here on Saturday. However, there were no casualties.
Fire Brigade officials stated the hearth started at round 10am near the gate of Swarna Bhumi Party Plot. Around 150 folks had been operating to arrange the wedding mandap when the hearth broke out reducing to ash sofas, chairs and other material. Nine firefighting vehicles from Majura fire station reached the spot but by way of then all inflammable material on the birthday celebration plot for a wedding function had gone up in flames. One firefighting car each of Essar and ONGC too had reached the web page. It took firefighters greater than two hours to douse the hearth. A brief-circuit is thought to have brought about the hearth within the birthday celebration plot owned by way of Odhav Patel.
“The marriage function had not but started. Arrangements had been nonetheless being made for the function when the hearth broke out. There had been many cooking gas cylinders within the kitchen. However, we got rid of the gas cylinders before they exploded together with folks on the birthday celebration plot,” stated Haribhau Boraste, fire officer, Majura fire station.
Basant Parikh, leader fire officer, told TOI, “The birthday celebration plot simply had a couple of fire extinguishers. Flame retardants and other equipment that may have helped to extinguish the hearth were not there. The birthday celebration plot proprietor had not taken no objection certificate from the hearth department after 2014. We will factor him a notice. The birthday celebration plot will simplest be allowed to reopen after it complies with the hearth protection laws.”
The monetary loss due to the hearth is worth a number of lakhs. The precise loss is but to be assessed by way of the birthday celebration plot proprietor and the wedding decorator, assets stated.
Fire Brigade officials stated the hearth started at round 10am near the gate of Swarna Bhumi Party Plot. Around 150 folks had been operating to arrange the wedding mandap when the hearth broke out reducing to ash sofas, chairs and other material. Nine firefighting vehicles from Majura fire station reached the spot but by way of then all inflammable material on the birthday celebration plot for a wedding function had gone up in flames. One firefighting car each of Essar and ONGC too had reached the web page. It took firefighters greater than two hours to douse the hearth. A brief-circuit is thought to have brought about the hearth within the birthday celebration plot owned by way of Odhav Patel.
“The marriage function had not but started. Arrangements had been nonetheless being made for the function when the hearth broke out. There had been many cooking gas cylinders within the kitchen. However, we got rid of the gas cylinders before they exploded together with folks on the birthday celebration plot,” stated Haribhau Boraste, fire officer, Majura fire station.
Basant Parikh, leader fire officer, told TOI, “The birthday celebration plot simply had a couple of fire extinguishers. Flame retardants and other equipment that may have helped to extinguish the hearth were not there. The birthday celebration plot proprietor had not taken no objection certificate from the hearth department after 2014. We will factor him a notice. The birthday celebration plot will simplest be allowed to reopen after it complies with the hearth protection laws.”
The monetary loss due to the hearth is worth a number of lakhs. The precise loss is but to be assessed by way of the birthday celebration plot proprietor and the wedding decorator, assets stated.
Massive fire at party plot, no casualties
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